Ran Quotes - Page 29

• The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.

  Lucy Worsley

  Father, War, Believe

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• When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.

  Choi Sung-bong

  School, Years, Three

  "Choi Sung Bong's moving rendition on Korea's Got Talent induces tears and controversy". www.allkpop.com. June 06, 2011.

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• I think our Auto Club Ford was very strong all day. I was very happy with the car we had. We were super fast (and) led a lot of laps. Nothing to hang our head down about, that's for sure. We were very proud of that. Doug Yates, thank you so much for the motor. That thing ran the last seven, eight laps with no water in it, just pushing water over 300-degrees. So it's really amazing for those guys. So thank you guys – everyone in the engine shop to get a solid run out here today. I look forward to (getting) back to the race track and try it again.

  Joey Logano

  Running, Strong, Thinking

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• Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!

  Don Garlits

  Talent, Drag Racing, Fine

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• I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it

  Connie Chung

  Car, Racing, Literature

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• The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cutting, Gun, Escaping

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• To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

  Annie Dillard

  Coffee, Useless, Tiny

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• I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

  Cathy Freeman

  Race, Years, Expectations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Upset, Gum, Gloves

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• I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Running, Way, Faster

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• I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Running, Odds, Voice

  "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

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• An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tired, Glasses, Broken

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.33, Random House

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• You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.

  Joan Aiken

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Character, Years, Law

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• I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

  Karlie Kloss

  Doors

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• Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

  Hank Aaron

  Stars, Games, Shoes

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• Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Heart, Kids

  "Return of the native son: LeBron James, 'a kid from Northeast Ohio,' is finally coming home", www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2014.

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• I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

  Betty Cuthbert

  Running, Motivational Running, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Women, Feet

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• I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

  Steve Scott

  Running, Firsts, Minutes

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• Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

  William H. Calvin

  People, Underwater, Fever

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• I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

  Joey Gathright

  God, Balls, Safe

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

  Melanie McGrath

  Beach, Failure, Rushing

  Melanie McGrath (2009). “Hopping”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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