Running Quotes - Page 23

• Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

  David Letterman

  Dream, New York, Husband

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• The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

  Jim Carrey

  Children, Inner Child

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• New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Eagles, Eggs

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• Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, President, Politics

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• Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.

  Bill Maher

  College, Ideas, Government

  "Real talk with Bill Maher". Interview with Joan Walsh, www.salon.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Flow, Succeed

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• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  Joe Bastianich

  Father, Men, Gangsta

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• Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

  Joseph Brodsky

  West, Triumph, Frost

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• My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

  Cathy Freeman

  Feelings, Triumph, Forthcoming

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Respect, Home

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.32, Zondervan

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• I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Believe, Passion

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• Obama is running again for spite.

  Mort Sahl

  Spite

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2011

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• Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

  Emo Philips

  Country, Couple, Florida

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Share, Dangerous, Turns

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• Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

  Redd Foxx

  Uncles, Men, Junk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember that guy who got gored by a bull and the bull pulled his underwear off and he had to run around the ring naked? If that footage comes out, I'll run that.

  Jon Stewart

  Guy, Underwear, Naked

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• Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

  Clement Mok

  Creating, Design, Looks

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• They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

  Stephen Colbert

  Silly, Fall, Thinking

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• Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Mistake, Order

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

  Edwina Currie

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Believe, Writing, Heart

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

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• What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

  David Brenner

  New York, Giving, Campaigns

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• You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

  David Brenner

  Goes On, Reruns, Firsts

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• I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

  George W. Bush

  President, Anxious, Whatever It Takes

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• You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  Artie Shaw

  Beautiful, I Like You, Women

  " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.

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