Fabian Cancellara Quotes

#1. It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

Fabian Cancellara

#2. I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure:
That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue.
That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming.
That I was loved.
That this time, it was not me who broke

Jodi Picoult

#3. If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

Keith Barry

#4. Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

Nhat Hanh

#5. S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations. ... the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off' ...

Patrick Califia-Rice

#6. My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Kitty Ferguson

#8. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

Tibor Fischer

#9. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#10. I've been banned from cutting my own fringe.

Suki Waterhouse

#11. Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Shel Silverstein

#12. Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

Fabian Cancellara

#13. What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated ... . We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.

Karl Jaspers

#14. If you lose, you will still be the best. If you win, you will be eternal.

Josep Guardiola

#15. Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.

Frankie Boyle

#16. I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

Fabian Cancellara

#17. It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.

Fabian Cancellara

#18. Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

Morrissey

#19. There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?
It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

John Boyne