Famous quotes containing the words long, track and/or speed:
“No one knows anybody’s name because nobody has a name. You’re just your state. I got to where somebody would say “Virginia,” and I’d answer. I was just “Virginia.” I wasn’t me any more.”
—Wendy Dascomb Long (b. c. 1950)
“He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally and politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)