Quotes On Setting New Records

#1. If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

Hermann Maier

#2. Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

#3. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

Teller

#4. Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Jon Bon Jovi

#6. We can pretend this never happened."
"Up to you." He touched my cheek with his fingertips, and I felt like an electrical cable to my nervous system went live. "I wouldn't mind finishing the job."
"Let's not promise each other anything."
"All right. No promises," he said.

C.D. Reiss

#7. I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Robert Jordan

#8. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.

Betty Smith

#9. I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Octavia E. Butler

#10. It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Maureen Corrigan

#11. What are you up to?"
"I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Obert Skye

#12. When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

John Mellencamp

#13. If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Amy Grant

#14. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.

Fran Seen

#15. I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman