Bobby Allison Quotes
It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.
Quotes to Explore
-
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
-
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
-
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
-
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
-
The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
-
I don't use labels a lot.
-
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
-
I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
-
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
-
I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
-
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
-
I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
-
I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
-
Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.
-
Je dis qu'il faut être voyant, se faire voyant. Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens.
-
When I go to audition for voiceovers, I do dress as if I'm going to an on-camera audition because that's my way of showing that I do care and it means something to me.
-
I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.
-
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
-
I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
-
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
-
If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.
-
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
-
It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.
