Short Track Speed

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

    The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    The weary sun hath made a golden set,
    And by the bright track of his fiery car
    Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)