Short Track Speed

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

    “A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I’m about $100,000 short.”
    —Mickey Rooney (b. 1920)

    “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)

    “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)