Famous quotes containing the words pump, specific and/or speed:
“God primes the pump of obligation.”
—A.P. Martinich (b. 1946)
“I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
musical, self-sufficient,
I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships, an
island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)