Olympic Bobsled Quotes

#1. As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. It is not in a woman's best interest to rule man. I don't believe any good women would want that position. - Ayn Rand

Brooke Bida

#3. A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we're incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.

Austin Kleon

#4. When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

William Goldman

#5. He was always thinking of what else to do and she told him that it was rare for her, because she had grown up not doing, but being.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.

Elana Meyers

#7. D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

John Flavel

#9. Everyone is asleep. They've been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.
I'm tired of sleeping.

Lauren Oliver

#10. I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

David Hockney

#11. Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Marcus Garvey

#12. I am so fortunate to be red! I'm fiery. I'm strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted.

Orhan Pamuk

#13. Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

Conan O'Brien