Oarsmen Quotes

#1. Already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera ... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

#3. Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

Mark Van Doren

#4. Even as rowers must subsume their often fierce sense of independence and self-reliance, at the same time they must hold true to their individuality, their unique capabilities as oarsmen or oarswomen or, for that matter, as human beings.
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Daniel James Brown

#5. When the clocks of midnight squander a generous time, I will go further than Ulysses' oarsmen to the realm of dreams, inaccessible to human nature. From that underwater region, I rescue fragments that I do not begin to understand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. To every bench, as a fixture, there was a chain with heavy anklets. These the hortator proceeded to lock upon the oarsmen, going from number to number, leaving no choice but to obey, and, in event of disaster, no possibility of escape.

Lew Wallace

#7. Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

Kathleen Raine

#8. Every good rowing coach, in his own way, imparts to his men the kind of self-discipline required to achieve the ultimate from mind, heart, and body. Which is why most ex-oarsmen will tell you they learned more fundamentally important lessons in the racing shell than in the classroom.

Daniel James Brown

#9. I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

Kathleen Hanna

#10. One said, Tell us ... what is it like? "What is what like?" One said, Being insane. Being human.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

Jim Butcher

#12. Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth - the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?

Sarah Grimm

#13. By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Henry Charles Carey

#14. It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.

Joan Rivers

#15. For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

Ronda Rousey

#16. [Superheroes] aren't fascists. They are just ordinary, decent, super-powerful people who inhabit a world in which fascism is the only political possibility.

David Graeber

#17. You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.

Geoffrey Canada