"I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is."

-- Mark Spitz

#Records Quotes #Watches Quotes #Break Quotes

“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.39, Penguin
“My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,”

Source : "Alien Artist H.R. Giger Passes Away at Age 74" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 13, 2014.
“I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.”
“For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.”
“What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
“Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.”
“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”
“We learn not for life but for the debating-room.”

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