Mary Lou Retton Quotes

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Mary Lou Retton

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Me
  • Personal
  • Fascination

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Want
  • Church
  • Saturday

• Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Good
  • Great
  • Acting

• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Power
  • Understanding

• I've got it.. .the Saint Lazare1 train-station in Paris, then. I'll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It's a fascinating sight, a real dream. I'll get them the station office to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Death
  • Giving

• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Curiosity

• Well Dad, send the money, See what I can see, Try to find a Cadillac, A Sixty-two or three. Just something that won't worry us To keep it on the road. Sincerely, your beloved son, Henry Junior Ford

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Road

• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • War
  • Church
  • Army

• Crises are harbingers of evolution.

  

  Bruce Lipton

• Never would I switch to Bayern.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

• Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Nice

• In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Country

• At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Time

• In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee

• Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met Jesus - not in a church or on a camp or through people, but alone in my bedroom with an open Bible and a tangible revelation that the Son of God was not only real, but alive and awesome and stronger than the chains that bound me.

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Bible

• …the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • City

• My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Business
  • House

• For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

  

  Mary Lou Retton