Quotes About Ultras

#1. I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope.

Jenn Shelton

#2. Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

Action Bronson

#3. We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

Don Kardong

#4. Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.

Kathe Koja

#5. decided then that I don't want to spend time thinking about things that I don't want to have a place in my life. You have to kick people out of your head as forcefully as you'd kick someone out of your house if you didn't want them to be there.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. I have an idea that all sensible people
will ultimately be damned.

Nora May French

#8. A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

Tacitus

#9. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#10. Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

James Agate

#11. The forest remembers that the last word can only be
the flaming cry of the bird of ruins in the bowl of the storm

Aime Cesaire

#12. If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

Joe Scarborough

#13. Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

Essence Atkins

#14. When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner

Yiannis Kouros

#15. Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

Greta Garbo

#16. It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Thomas Paine

#17. There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

Allison Mackie

#18. With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Mason Cooley