Short Track Speed

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

    “It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “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)