"I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that."

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Source : "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles - Q&A". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015.

Chris Froome

#Believe Quotes #Cycling Quotes #Generations Quotes

“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”
“We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.”

Source : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.16, Cambridge University Press
“No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.”

Source : William Buckland (1837). “Geology and Mineralogy: Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.103
“The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.”
“Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.”
“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”

Source : Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.172, Prestwick House Inc
“Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.”

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