Speed Skating World

Famous quotes containing the words speed, skating and/or world:

“For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
—Martin Amis (b. 1949)

“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The world is not looking for servants,—there are plenty of these,—but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)