Harold Abrahams Quotes

#1. I don't mind being naked.

Nicole Kidman

#2. I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

Robert Harris

#3. If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

Colin Morgan

#4. Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

Paul Samuelson

#5. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

#6. We tell our daughters we don't trust them in a thousand ways. We don't consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren't strong enough to see them struggle.

Claire Fontaine

#7. Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma.

Jonathan Dunne

#8. There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#9. If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

J.D. Salinger

#10. If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked
which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.

Jean Genet

#11. When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Sometimes when I run, I listen to jazz, but usually it's rock, since its beat is the best accompaniment to the rhythm of running.

Haruki Murakami

#13. One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people to be active or not" Lightfoot says. "You can have a predisposition to be a couch potato

David Epstein

#14. People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Ray Charles

#15. I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Lois Lowry