Bobbi Gibb Quotes

If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'

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• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Iranian

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Career
  • Hopefully
  • Fortunately

• I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Never
  • Loved

• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Business
  • Death

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better

• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  

  Kate Adie
  • Danger
  • Fault
  • Adrenalin

• I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Gun
  • Taking
  • Bought

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Good
  • Chance

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Know
  • Gift
  • Test

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• I remember when I was a kid at school having to learn a poem of sorts about a fellow named Pig-something-a sculptor he would have been, no doubt-who made a statue of a girl, and what should happen one morning but that the bally thing suddenly came to life. A pretty nasty shock for the chap, of course.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Law
  • Slavery

• I have taken care of my gift, and because I've taken care of my gift, I feel like I've been continually and constantly blessed to get to do wonderful things.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Taken
  • Blessed

• If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • You
  • Opportunity

• My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.

  

  Kasey Chambers
  • People
  • Family
  • Fun

• If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'

  

  Bobbi Gibb
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Reasons