Gail Devers Quotes
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.Gail Devers
Quotes to Explore
-
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
-
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
-
Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
-
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
-
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
-
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
-
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
-
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
-
Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
-
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
-
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
-
A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
-
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
-
I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
-
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
-
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
-
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
-
As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
-
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
-
True engagement – the ability to give ourselves deliberately and unreservedly to a task or a personal interaction – arises from a clear sense of our own desires, goals and intentions. It is when our energies and our perspective are replenished that we can return to our active lives with a renewed sense of pleasure and commitment. In other words, it is only if we periodically disengage, that we can become truly and effectively engaged.
-
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
-
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
-
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Gail Devers
