Running Quotes - Page 22

• I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Want, Meaning Of Life

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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• Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

  George Carlin

  Sports, Mother, Can Do

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  Hopeful, Presidential, Awkward

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• Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

  Billy Connolly

  Scissors, Objects

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• Repeat after me. I promise not to run outside of the house. I promise not to run inside of the house. I promise not to touch, pick up, step on, anything that looks interesting.

  Bill Cosby

  Interesting, House, Promise

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• Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Home, Dinner

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• The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Cities, People

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• 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 Murphy

  People, Knees, Causes

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• I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

  Bill Maher

  Stupid, Reading, Kids

  "Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

  Bill Maher

  Crazy, Running Away

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.94, Rodale

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• Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, President, Politics

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• Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.

  Bill Maher

  College, Ideas, Government

  "Real talk with Bill Maher". Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Kim Il Sung, Demon

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• Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Flow, Succeed

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

  Bernie Mac

  Office, Running For Office

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• Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

  David Letterman

  Dream, New York, Husband

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• Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

  Joseph Brodsky

  West, Triumph, Frost

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• Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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

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• New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Eagles, Eggs

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• The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

  Jim Carrey

  Children, Inner Child

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• I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Believe, Passion

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Share, Dangerous, Turns

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• My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

  Cathy Freeman

  Feelings, Triumph, Forthcoming

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• My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

  Cathy Freeman

  Opportunity, World, Stories

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• I go the gym and I try to run on the treadmill and I listen to music but it doesn't motivate me enough. So I'm going to get a recording of a pack of wolves gaining on me. People would be like, 'Why is that guy crying on that treadmill over there?' 'I don't know, but he's been yelling, 'help' for like 20 minutes. He's getting a good workout.

  Demetri Martin

  Workout, Yelling, People

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