World Sailing Speed

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

    And yet I think, if she were gone,
    The world were better left alone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
    Your head like the golden-rod,
    And we will go sailing away from here
    To the beautiful land of Nod.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855–1919)

    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)