World Sailing Speed

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

“We admire a woman for the courage to show herself to the world as she is, and in the end it’s the courage we find attractive.”
—New Yorker (April 30, 1990)

“To sunny waters some
By fatal instinct fly; where on the pool
They sportive wheel, or, sailing down the stream,
Are snatched immediate by the quick-eyed trout
Or darting salmon.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)

“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)