"If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'"

-- Bobbi Gibb

#Running Quotes #Fun Quotes #Past Quotes

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.”
“I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.”
“But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.”
“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.”
“You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.”

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