Quotations for the Fast Lane
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2013
- Category
- Quotations, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773542983
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $70.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773590205
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $70.00
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Description
Richard Pound has spent half a lifetime identifying, collecting, and organizing thousands of quotations. Quotations for the Fast Lane is the result of that effort, selected by someone with an impressive range of local, national, and international experience, and arranged alphabetically by theme to be easily accessible for all readers and all occasions. Words from personalities ranging from William Blake to Warren Buffett on all topics imaginable, serve to elevate and inspire. The great majority of the quotations in this book are pithy, often humorous and sardonic, but always containing an interesting perspective on life, conduct, and achievement. Quotations for the Fast Lane: "I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence." Edgar Allan Poe "It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong." Warren Buffett "The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." Leonard Cohen
About the author
Scholar, lawyer and former Olympic athlete, Richard W. Pound has served the Canadian and international movement for more than 25 years. Currently Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a member of the International Olympic Committee, he is the author of several books including Five Rings Over Korea, Inside the Olympics, Stikeman Elliott: The First Fifty Years, and High Impact Quotations, recently published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.