Long Track Speed

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

    “Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “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)