High Speed Main

Famous quotes containing the words high, speed and/or main:

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“There was such speed in her little body,
And such lightness in her footfall,
It is no wonder her brown study
Astonishes us all.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“The main trouble [with this country] is there are too many people who don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)