Usain Bolt Quotes

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Usain Bolt

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Maintenance

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Know
  • Rest

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Ever

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Relax

• 'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • People
  • Power
  • Support

• I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Curiosity

• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Learned
  • Evolution
  • Genes

• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • She
  • Business

• I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Sunshine

• Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Beginning
  • Doubt
  • Philosophical

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight