Mariel Zagunis Quotes

#1. An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There's no reason for me to stop.

Mariel Zagunis

#3. I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.

Tom McClintock

#4. Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. It's a hard loss when you lose by one point.

Mariel Zagunis

#6. For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

Mariel Zagunis

#7. With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

Mariel Zagunis

#8. No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.

Georgette Heyer

#9. It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

Chrissie Wellington

#10. My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

Mariel Zagunis

#11. Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

John Oliver

#12. Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person who came before me. It's more like, "Yeah, I'm doing my thing and what happens, happens," and fortunately those have been some pretty amazing results.

Mariel Zagunis

#13. Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

Patrick Ness

#14. Evan had heard it all before. A paradise underground, made for things like the worm in front of him. A place where Evan would forget he had ever been human, forget he had a mother, maybe even forget his own name. This thing did not remember its own, Evan was sure of it.

Mary G. Thompson

#15. On the journey of spiritual transformation, you want to lose your baggage. In fact, you want to make sure all of it is lost, so that when you reach the end of this road, you have nothing left to cover your Self up with.

Derek Rydall

#16. Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Vaclav Klaus

#17. You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon