"The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood."

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Sports Quotes #Workout Quotes #Moving Quotes

“There are women whose love only ends with death.”
“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.”
“I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.”

Source : "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.
“I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.”
“I donâ€™t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.”
“Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier
“Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.”
“I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.”

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