Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Rodgers

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Bill Rodgers

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

Bill Rodgers

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

Bill Rancic

My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.

Bill Parcells

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

Bill Kirby

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

Bill Kurtis

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Bill Joy

I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

Bill Joy

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Bill Joy

If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

Beverly Sills

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beyonce Knowles

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

Bernie Ecclestone

The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

Bernhard Schlink

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Bernhard Schlink

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

Bernie Mac

I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Bernie Mac

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

Benjamin Percy

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Edward Hoagland

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Edward Hoagland

Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

Eddie Murphy

You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them.

Eddie Izzard

I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over. Cause if a woman falls over wearing heels, that’s embarrassing. But if a bloke falls over wearing heels, you have to kill yourself. It’s the end of your life.

Eddie Izzard

I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you're up there!

Ed Balls

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Ed Balls

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

Ed Begley, Jr.

We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

Ed Begley, Jr.

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

Eartha Kitt

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

Dawn Powell

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Dean Acheson

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

Dean Acheson

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.