Famous quotes containing the words exceed and/or speed:
“Not many sounds in life ... exceed in interest a knock at the door.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
“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)