Chicago Marathon Quotes

#1. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

Deena Kastor

#2. His phone rang again, and he turned it on speaker. "Adair residence - "
"Shut up, Cabe." Silas's voice filled the car. "Your Lexus isn't a residence, and I know you're driving, because I'm watching your GPS dot move down the road.

Jane Washington

#3. I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

Xavier Dolan

#4. The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Eric Hobsbawm

#5. If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Margaret Laurence

#6. It soon transpired, however, that the unicorn only approached youthful maidens, paying absolutely no attention to older ones. Being a wise creature, the unicorn indubitably knows that remaining too long in the state of maidenhood is suspicious and counter to the natural order. Physiologus

Andrzej Sapkowski

#7. It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

George Jackson

#8. Yes, I am a bloodthirsty little thing. No, I don't have any problem inflicting violence when I deem it necessary. Yes, 'when I'm pissed' falls under the necessary column.

Annie Anderson

#9. I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

Mekhi Phifer

#10. Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. She deserves to be free of me.

Krista Ritchie

#12. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

Malachy McCourt

#13. GOD, HIS OWN INTERPRETER

Anonymous

#14. After fourteen years of matrimony, I have discovered that hoping your other half telepathically reads your mind only leads to someone wanting to punch the other one in the face.

Twinkle Khanna

#15. You could not help but feel your specklike existence among the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.
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Paul Kalanithi