Short Track Speed

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

    “You’ve got many refinements. I don’t think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

    “To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “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)