Average Race Speed

Famous quotes containing the words average, race and/or speed:

    “The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
    —J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964)

    “I see the callus on his sole,
    The disappearing last of him
    And of his race starvation slim,
    Oh, years ago—ten thousand years.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
    —Martin Amis (b. 1949)