Absolute World Speed

Famous quotes containing the words absolute, world and/or speed:

    “The screen of supreme good fortune curved his absolute smile into a celestial scream.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is—in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
    —Penelope Fitzgerald (b. 1916)

    “If it be aught toward the general good,
    Set honor in one eye, and death i’th’ other,
    And I will look on both indifferently;
    For let the gods so speed me as I love
    The name of honor more than I fear death.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)