"I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh."

-- Jules Ladoumegue

#Running Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.”
“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”
“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
“Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

Source : "The Curse Of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.
“The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a very good thing, and it's not the kind of thing to just make into kind of a "ha-ha."”
“I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.”
“I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.”
“The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.”

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