Runners Quotes - Page 21

• Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

  J.H. Wyman

  Blade Runner, Film, My Favorite

  "Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Final Season of FRINGE, When to Expect Answers, Creating a Rewarding Conclusion and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

  Lucretius

  Space, Generations, Literature

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• A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

  Ken Doherty

  Running, Oasis, Desert

  Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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• The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

  Cal Hubbard

  Play, Way, Tag

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• I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

  Tom Weiskopf

  Golf, Winning, Love Is

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• In war there is no prize for runner-up.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Philosophical, Runner Up

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

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• In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

  Goose Gossage

  Jobs, Guy, Opinion

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• Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

  Charlize Theron

  Blade Runner, Way, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

  Sam Abell

  Distance, Believe, Ambition

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.

  Carrie Tollefson

  Children, Healthy, Important

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• Runners are poor walkers.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Personality, Poor, Walkers

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• Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Stress, May

  FaceBook post by Jeff Galloway from Nov 14, 2012

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• The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

  Rocky Bridges

  Quality, Thirds, Coaches

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• I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Believe, Hero, Years

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

  Barbara Holland

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Hands

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• The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Ideas, Attractive, Shows

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  Patrick Wilson

  Weekend, Avid

  "Face Time: Patrick Wilson". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  Tate Donovan

  Running, Brother, College

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• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  Maggie Q

  Athlete, Kids, Challenges

  "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Its very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... youre not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

  George Foreman

  Nice, Kids, People

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• During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

  Douglas Wilder

  Leader, African American, President

  Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC "Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers" by L. Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 9, 2010.

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