Famous quotes containing the words track, cycling, world and/or scratch:
“Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)
“Education is considered the peculiar business of women; perhaps for that very reason it is one of the worst-paid businesses in the world ...”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)
“And now I even have to scratch my back myself.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)