Fixx Quotes

#1. Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.

Bill Hicks

#2. Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it.

Jim Fixx

#3. Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Jim Fixx

#4. Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

John Mellencamp

#5. [Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.

Jim Fixx

#6. The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

Frederic G. Kenyon

#7. It is not something I must do but something I want to do ...

Jim Fixx

#8. Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.

Jim Fixx

#9. I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion.

Jill Douglas

#10. This kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But

Michael Connelly

#11. When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.

Jim Fixx

#12. So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new.

Trip Hawkins

#13. Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it.

Jim Fixx

#14. The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

Jim Fixx

#15. Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Jim Fixx

#16. She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Harriet Evans

#17. Matthew Henry wrote, "The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."2

Tullian Tchividjian

#18. Feuds are forgiven, if not forgotten, in the hour of death

("The Watcher O' The Dead")

John Guinan

#19. If you battle L, you picked the wrong head
I smash mics like cornbread
You can't kill me, I was born dead

Big L

#20. Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Ellen Raskin