Erg Quotes

#1. The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

David McCord

#2. One of these days, I was going to find out what kind of soap he used so I could put it through a cheese grater and snort it like it was coke. Someday, my body would be found in a dirty alley somewhere, OD'd on the stuff.

T. Torrest

#3. Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things

Mike Teti

#4. Don't tell me you're guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.
(Meghan to Machina)

Julie Kagawa

#5. I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Irving Stone

#6. Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Reba McEntire

#7. When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

Barry S. Strauss

#8. You need to run. Your ass may be bigger than me, but I can use a gun real damn good. So you've been warned. I'm coming after your motherfucking ass and I intend to put a bullet between your eyes.

Abbi Glines

#9. Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.

Stefan Kieszling

#10. Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

Rachel Cohn

#11. To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

Mike Teti