Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McAvoy

I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

James Martineau

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

Emily Dickinson

MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

Emily Dickinson

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

Emil Zatopek

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

Emil Zatopek

If I can get better, why not?

Emil Zatopek

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'

Emil Zatopek

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Emil Zatopek

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Emil Zatopek

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

Emil Zatopek

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

Emil Zatopek

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

Emil Zatopek

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

Hilary Duff

so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want to be without you oh no here i go now you know what i feel about you theres no running must have been wrong to doubt you oh there i go no control and i'm fallen so now you know

Johanna Lindsey

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Haruki Murakami

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Greg Behrendt

One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

John Maynard Keynes

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

John Maynard Keynes

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

John Madden

When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower

Dianne Feinstein

It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.

David A. Siegel

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

Darren Shan

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Dave Chappelle

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

David Schwimmer

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.

David Lange

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

David D. Burns

If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

David Suzuki

Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

David R. Brower

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.