Long Track Speed

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

“Inspector Clouseau: How long have you been a bellboy?
Bellboy: Too long, monsieur.
Inspector Clouseau: Keep up this good work and very soon I will see to it that you become a bellman.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

“The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Life is too short to waste
In critic peep or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprimand:
‘Twill soon be dark;
Up, heed thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)