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)