Track Speed Skating

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

“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)

“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)