2007 World Speed Skating Championships

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

“There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful not to ally myself with such a monster.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)