Boardman Quotes

#1. Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Jens Voigt

#2. The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

George Dana Boardman Pepper

#3. I gotta use words to talk to you.

T. S. Eliot

#4. Suffering for eight hours ... the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

Chris Boardman

#5. We are the things we don't remember,
the blank spaces, the forgotten words.

Cecilia Ruiz

#6. Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

Charles Boardman Hawes

#7. She loathed all the IM and texting abbreviations and acronyms. She was a snob like that

Jessica Park

#8. Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

#9. Just standing on the slope, waiting, I felt helplessly committed with the other two. I started hating the predicament, and then hating climbing, utterly and in general, and wishing myself out of it.

Peter Boardman

#10. By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

Chris Boardman

#11. The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

George Dana Boardman Pepper

#12. I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

John Bolton

#13. What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Brendan Behan

#14. We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

George Dana Boardman Pepper

#15. Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#16. The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

George Dana Boardman Pepper