Top 100 I Run Quotes
#1. I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something.
Jon Stewart
#2. I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.
Dean Koontz
#3. My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
Rodney Atkins
#4. God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
Bill Bowerman
#5. I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.
Bernie Sanders
#6. My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.
John Bryant
#7. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
Asafa Powell
#8. I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.
Jerry Seinfeld
#9. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#10. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.
W. Somerset Maugham
#11. I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. I guess there's so much more I have to learn,
But if you're here with me, I know which way to turn
You always give me somewhere, somewhere I can run,
You make it real for me
James Morrison
#13. What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian McEwan
#14. Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.
Louie Anderson
#15. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.
Robin Leach
#17. I try to get people to see what I have ... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
Steve Jobs
#18. As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
Rodney King
#19. Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.
Viola Davis
#20. I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.
Jay Leno
#21. I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
Curtis Joseph
#22. I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
Ellen Hopkins
#23. I am doing this so that you remember not to run from me, and as exciting as it is, I never want you to run from me!
E.L. James
#24. I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.
Mickey Drexler
#25. I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages
Cam'ron
#26. I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time ... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#27. I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.
Kara Goucher
#28. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.
David Salle
#29. I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.
Yann Martel
#30. I hate to run. I never, ever run.
Bo Derek
#31. I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
Peter Ustinov
#32. I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.
Ian Barker
#33. I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
Mark Bradford
#34. I refer you to my earlier statement. I love you, Ryder. It doesn't shut off because you run away. It doesn't die because you want it to in order to protect me. You think you're destroying me, but loving you strengthens me. Heals the broken.
Melyssa Winchester
#35. I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.
Sebastian Coe
#36. But without Lo to hide behind, my only defense against Aaron is to run. And I'm not as fast as Loren Hale. Not even close.
Krista Ritchie
#37. I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
Veronica Webb
#38. If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I'm not entirely comfortable with that, I said, smirking.
Laura Kreitzer
#39. I run for miles but don't count them, passing dark house after dark house. I feel sorry for everyone in this town who's sleeping. I
Jennifer Niven
#40. If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.
Dana Carvey
#41. I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
Brian Eno
#42. When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.
Summer Sanders
#43. I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
James McAvoy
#44. I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.
Andreas Katsulas
#45. Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently,
Steve Wozniak
#46. Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block
Bruno Mars
#47. I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
Wendy Davis
#48. If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a ... lot of cardio just from being a parent.
Hugh Jackman
#49. I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.
Jim Webb
#50. I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'
Frank O'Hara
#51. For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Rachel Joyce
#52. My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.
Tony Dungy
#53. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines
#54. I run everywhere I go. You wake up, and you do it, and you make the time. I bring my son, Duke, with me on a lot of the runs. I have this great jogging stroller, and he loves it. It's a great time for the two of us. We'll crank out a run, and he has the time of his life.
Bill Rancic
#55. Insanity doesn't run in our family," I said. "It strolls along, takes its time and gets to know you personally.
Nick Wilgus
#56. I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.
Michele Bachmann
#57. Shenandoah National Park is lovely. It is possibly the most wonderful national park I have ever been in, and, considering the impossible and conflicting demands put on it, it is extremely well run. Almost at once it became my favorite part of the Appalachian Trail.
Bill Bryson
#58. I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.
Marco Rubio
#59. I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.
Ryan Sheckler
#60. Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)
Jules Verne
#61. I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.
Seanan McGuire
#62. I run - and not so that I'll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I'll be good at running.
Jim Butcher
#63. Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.
Sheryl Lee
#64. Because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't. Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too - a
Paula McLain
#65. I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.
Johnny Carson
#66. The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
Bart Stupak
#67. For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.
Casey Neistat
#68. I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.
Anne, Queen Of Great Britain
#69. Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#70. I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
Carolyn Keene
#71. It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#72. And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
G.K. Chesterton
#73. I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
#74. I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.
Rich Mullins
#75. Shaya's chasing Nick with her shotgun - and I'm not even kidding. I believe the last words she said to him before we left were, 'Run, Alpha-boy.
Suzanne Wright
#76. I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
Rufus Wainwright
#77. I won't run from death. I won't run from pain or fear. Life hurts sometimes, sometimes so much that you think it's never gonna stop hurting. That's a beautiful thing.
Joshua McCune
#78. I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.
Erma Bombeck
#79. Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.
William Shakespeare
#80. I have no plans to run for president.
Jim DeMint
#81. Because my wife worked for him, and I run security checks on anyone my wife works with - Christian Grey
E.L. James
#82. Yes, they're a little biased there, I agree. Mike smiles at this understatement, knowing as I do that saying they're a little biased in Mudd's favor at the Mudd-family-run Mudd home in Maryland is like saying cheese steaks are kind of associated with Philadelphia.
Sarah Vowell
#83. We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.
A-Trak
#84. After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.
Alice McDermott
#85. I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.
Sebastien De Castell
#86. I believe that we are living in an unprecedented time of change. The real danger for society is that people resist, ignore or run away from massive changes in their lives and consequently do themselves long-term damage.
Adele Theron
#87. I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from,
Marshall Faulk
#88. If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?
Juliana Hatfield
#89. There was a long silence. Magnus broke it. "I have to hand it to you," he said. "I never thought Jace and Clary would be topped by anyone else in terms of insane, self-destructive decisions, but you all are giving them a run for their money.
Cassandra Clare
#90. I don't want ... to run away by myself ... because no matter what ... I'd rather be together with everyone ...
Hiro Mashima
#91. I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
Jack Irons
#92. In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before ... we needed a hit.
Lauren Zalaznick
#93. I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.
David Ortiz
#94. Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
Nancy Allen
#95. I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.
Allen Ginsberg
#96. I want to run or die or get fucked up. I want to be blind and dumb and have no heart. I want to crawl in a hole and never come out. I want to wipe my existence straight off the map. Straight off the fucking map.
James Frey
#97. In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
Gene Siskel
#98. I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.
Richard Masur
#99. I'd be lying if I said all those thoughts didn't run through my crotch as soon as we made eye contact. I mean, mind. They ran through my mind. Samuel
Elliott James
#100. Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.
Bo Schembechler
