Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Marley

You can't run away from yourself

Bill Viola

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Bill Veeck

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Bill Walsh

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

Bill Walton

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

Bill Watterson

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Bill Watterson

You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.

Bill Watterson

Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

Bill Watterson

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

Bill Watterson

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

Bill Watterson

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Bill Watterson

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

Bill Watterson

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Benoit Mandelbrot

I don't seek power and do not run around

Bob Higgins

This is the complacency I have run into.

Bob Hartley

Each of these "houses of hope" had their own unique "ingredients" based on their inheritance, but I also saw some common ingredients that were shared by all: ... In conclusion, the Lord is saying, "Because of what has been loosed on the earth, angels are ascending and descending, as well as demons. My people must run into the house of hope! The river will take you there! This is not a fearful thing. Respond!" I am hearing the Lord giving this call to the nations. Don't be like Reuben in Judges 5, who couldn't decide, Do I go, do I stay? The Lord is shouting, "Run into that house of hope!"

Bob Hope

Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

Bob Hope

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

Bob Hope

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

Bjorn Lomborg

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

Biz Stone

We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.

Biz Stone

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

Biz Stone

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Biz Stone

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

Biz Stone

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

Biz Stone

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Bill Gross

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

Bill Gross

If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.

Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Bill Gates

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Betty Cuthbert

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.