Long Track Speed

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

    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto
    the bitter in soul;
    Which long for death,
    Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 20–21)

    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)

    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)