Sailing Speed Record

Famous quotes containing the words sailing, speed and/or record:

    O western orb sailing the heaven,
    Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
    As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    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)

    One foot in each great ocean
    Is a record stride or stretch.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)