World Sailing Speed

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

    “Attainment and science, retainment and art—the two couples keep to themselves, but when they do meet, nothing else in the world matters.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)