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)

    What joy when the insouciant
    armadillo glances at us and doesn’t
    quicken his trotting
    across the track into the palm brush.
    What is this joy? That no animal
    falters, but knows what it must do?
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    It was undoubtedly the feeling of exile—that sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)