Zola Budd Quotes

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

Zola Budd

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Internet
  • Information

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Know
  • Like
  • Strangers

• I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Life
  • Different
  • Think

• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
  • Intelligence
  • View

• I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Country
  • House

• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  

  Abba Eban
  • World
  • Prove
  • Dialogue

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Which

• Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men

• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Trust
  • Wonder

• That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Guitar
  • About
  • Blues

• Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier...

  

  Bob Marley
  • Help
  • Way

• Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Old

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
  • Uncomfortable