"A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment."

-- Rod Milburn

#Track Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Familiar Quotes

“If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.”
“There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.”
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
“It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,”
“The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.”
“Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.”
“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”

Source : Sandra Brown (2010). “Tough Customer: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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