Top 17 Olympic Winner Quotes
#1. There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room
Adele Parks
#2. Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.
Stephen Colbert
#3. War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that's all there is in it.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#4. When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.
John Hodgman
#5. Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. - BILL COSBY
Timothy Ferriss
#6. Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected ... but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.
Stephen King
#8. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Yeah, that was a good song. My theme song. But really I thought it was everybody's theme song.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson
#10. Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
Asafa Powell
#11. The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.
Joseph Stowell
#12. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
Ida Lupino
#14. In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.
Mary Norton
#15. I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
Brad Paisley
#16. Sophie opened one sleepy eye. A chink of light had found its way through a gap in the bedroom curtains and was falling on her face. She felt her husband slide his cold body down under the duvet and raised her head. She spotted a steaming mug of tea on her beside cabinet.
Michael Hambling
#17. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
