Berlin Olympics Quotes

#1. The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

Anthony Lane

#2. I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.

Jacque Fresco

#3. No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.

Virgil

#4. To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

Paula Radcliffe

#5. At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

Anne Ursu

#6. There's no jealousy in the grave.

Rudyard Kipling

#7. One of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Junot Diaz

#8. To have a spirit of excellence gives you the courage to accept large and small tasks and also strive to learn from our mistakes.

Euginia Herlihy

#9. When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.

John Cage