Amby Burfoot Quotes
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
Barry Sheene -
The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
Hanya Yanagihara -
For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
Adam Peaty -
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Carl von Clausewitz -
A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
Rachel Sklar -
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
Irvine Welsh
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I've often stopped working for long periods.
Carl Andre -
TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.
Apolo Ohno -
Affirm the body, beautiful and whole, The earth-expression of immortal soul. Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour, To speed between thee and the source of power. Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I - Of this great trinity no part deny.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.
H. L. Richardson -
If Landau would have been here he would have stopped you after twenty seconds.
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
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I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.
Kate Jackson -
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
William Shakespeare -
Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!
William Cullen Bryant -
Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.
William Davenant -
Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
Yaron Brook -
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
George Bernard Shaw -
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
Stephen Covey -
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
Ornette Coleman -
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton -
While we wait for life, life passes
Seneca the Younger -
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
Amby Burfoot