Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haile Gebrselassie

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

Gunter Grass

We dance for the pure joy of it. In the kitchen to the record player. Because we've got it in us. All over ... it's not just in the legs. It comes from inside and runs all through you. In waves. From down below to up above. All the way to the scalp.

Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.

Graham Roberts

I would run through brick walls for Spurs.

Graham Yost

I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.

Jim Cantalupo

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

Jim Cantalupo

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim C. Hines

Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.

Jim Brown

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

Jim Brown

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Jim Brown

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

Jim Brown

There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

Jim Butcher

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Jim Butcher

You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

Jim Butcher

Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.

Jim Butcher

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

Jim Butcher

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

Jim Butcher

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

Jim Butcher

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Jim Butcher

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.

Jim Butcher

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

Jesse Ventura

Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

Jesse Ventura

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

Jessica Alba

I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.

Jesse Ventura

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

Jesse Ventura

Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.

Jesse Ventura

What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

Jesse Ventura

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

Jesse Ventura

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Jesse Ventura

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

Jesse Ventura

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Jerry Jeff Walker

In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.