Mark Spitz Quotes
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
Mark Spitz
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
Rakul Preet Singh
I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
Taylor Sheridan
I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.
D. B. Weiss
I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
Harold Pinter
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
Sally Ride
I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski
The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
Uday Kotak
All history is modern history.
Wallace Stevens
I pray the gods will give me some reliefAnd end this weary job. One long full yearI've been lying here, on this rooftop,The palace of the sons of Atreus,Resting on my arms, just like a dog.I've come to know the night sky, every star,The powers we see glittering in the sky,Bringing winter and summer to us all,As the constellations rise and sink.
Aeschylus
Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
Lou Reed
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
Philip Gibbs
I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
Jack Lowden
Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.
Vir Das
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.
Vladimir Nabokov
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
John Calvin
When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
Mark Spitz
