Oarsman Quotes

#1. To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Steve Fairbairn

#2. Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes. A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman

Daniel James Brown

#3. Should anyone here in Rome lack finesse at love-making,
Let him
Try me - read my book, and the results are guaranteed!
Technique is the secret. Charioteer, sailor, oarsman,
All need it.
Technique can control
Love himself.

Ovid

#4. The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.

Kenneth Grahame

#5. Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.

Daniel James Brown

#6. Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration.

John Barth

#7. It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

Jane Austen

#8. Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Dogen

#9. Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.

Grigoris Deoudis

#10. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Jonathan Tropper

#11. We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it.

Marty Rubin

#12. If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#13. The mages' stories may be deceitful, but they raise the questions that the majority of people prefer to overlook.

Andrew Orange

#14. They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind's collective Jekyll.

Robert Dunbar

#15. I'm just saying. It took how many years for Disney to give all those little black girls their own princess? You think it's right for Violet to want something they've been waiting on forever?

Jodi Picoult

#16. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO KEEP THE LOVE ALIVE BUT TAKING IN CONSIDERATION WHAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR MAN

Linda Alfiori