2007 World Speed Skating Championships

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

“Beyond the glass
The colourless vial of day painlessly spilled
My world back after a year....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Wait, Kate! You skate at such a rate
You leave behind your skating mate.
Your splendid speed won’t you abate?
He’s lagging far behind you, Kate.”
—David Daiches (b. 1912)

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)