High Speed Thrill

Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or thrill:

    “She stood breast high amid the corn,
    Clasp’d by the golden light of morn,”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “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)

    “What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?—Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)