Famous quotes containing the words short, track, speed, skating, world and/or cup:
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“What joy when the insouciant
armadillo glances at us and doesnt
quicken his trotting
across the track into the palm brush.
What is this joy? That no animal
falters, but knows what it must do?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of mans adjustment to itthe speed of his acceptance.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We mustnt complain too much of being comediansits an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failedthats all. We are bad comedians, we arent bad men.”
—Graham Greene (19041991)
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)