Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Barbara Kingsolver

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

Barbara Kingsolver

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

Barbara Kingsolver

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

Barbara Kingsolver

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

Barbara Kingsolver

... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Barbara Kingsolver

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Barbara Kingsolver

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Bai Ling

I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

Babe Ruth

I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

Babe Ruth

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

Babe Ruth

Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.

Babe Ruth

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Michael Moore

We're having a run like we've never had before. And it's fun.

Jeanine Pirro

There are two women running for the United States Senate, ... Between those two women, there is only one who truly wants to be United States senator from New York.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Barbara Olson

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

Aprilynne Pike

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

April Winchell

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

Apolo Ohno

On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

Apolo Ohno

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

Apolo Ohno

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

Apolo Ohno

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

Antonio Banderas

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Antonio Banderas

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

Ben Shapiro

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Ben Stein

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.