2021 Olympic Quotes

#1. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett

#2. We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Paul Elmer More

#3. Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

Jeff Ross

#4. Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues, - for thou wilt succumb by them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

Sam Altman

#6. A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

Ben Bernanke

#7. Word For The Day KERFUFFLE (kuhr FUF uhl) n. Disorder; uproar; confusion

Deb Baker

#8. The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

John Steinbeck