Anne Cushman Quotes

#1. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars.

Anne Cushman

#3. We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Brian Clough

#4. One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Robert Menzies

#5. Everything's more amusing when read in voices.

Tessa Dare

#6. Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

Xavier Niel

#7. What to do with you, lass. What to do with you. You will either get me killed or earn me a bloody fortune.

M.L. Chesley

#8. Sometimes, in one of his more exuberant or desperate moods, Pa would go out in the veld and sprinkle brandy on the daisies to make them drunk so that they wouldn't feel the pain of shrivelling up and dying.

Andre Brink

#9. My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

Helen Falconer

#10. I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

Shawn Johnson