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)

    We don’t know any more about pictures than a kangaroo does about metaphysics.... To us, the great uncultivated, it is the last thing in the world to call a picture. Brown said it looked like an old fire- board.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    There was such speed in her little body,
    And such lightness in her footfall,
    It is no wonder her brown study
    Astonishes us all.
    John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)