"To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years."

-- Bradley Wiggins

#Winning Quotes #Cycling Quotes #Years Quotes

“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”
“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”

Source : John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”
“The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.”
“I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.”
“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”
“Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.”
“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”

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