Long Track Speed

Famous quotes containing the words long, track and/or speed:

    “A cold coming we had of it,
    Just the worst time of the year
    For a journey, and such a long journey:”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Away went the messenger’s bicycle,
    His serpent’s track went up the hill forever.
    And all the time she stood there hot as fever
    And cold as any icicle.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)