Oerter Discus Quotes

#1. When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.

Jack Black

#2. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

Gwenn Wright

#3. Proponents of the new and defenders of the old can't merely discuss the transition, because each group has systematic biases that make its overall vision untrustworthy;

Anonymous

#4. I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

Al Oerter

#5. You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.

Frank Herbert

#6. Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.

Ayana Mathis

#8. I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.

Philippe Petit

#9. Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know - that is curiosity. To know, to be known - that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know - that is gospel duty.

Matthew Mead

#10. Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

Billy Sherwood

#11. These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

Patti Smith

#12. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

Paul Ryan

#13. I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Al Oerter

#14. That Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in England as a corporation, enabling one hundred white male religious fanatics to elect their leader to rule in a completely totalitarian way.

Larry Kramer

#15. The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

Louis Pasteur

#16. help victims of human trafficking before her boss voted on it, but failed

Anonymous