Long Track Speed

Famous quotes containing the words long, track and/or speed:

    A cold coming we had of it,
    Just the worst time of the year
    For a journey, and such a long journey:
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters—not to talk in armies and nations and numbers—but to track it home.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    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)