"For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about."

-- Grete Waitz

#Lonely Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.”
“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”
“Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.”
“It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.”
“As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.”
“They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.”

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