Tim Krabbe Quotes

#1. Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

Tim Krabbe

#2. We have every book you'll need," Mr. Reynolds said with a wink behind his Coke-bottle glasses. "Just ask." "Every book I'll ever need? Sounds like Heaven," she said with smile. "It's a library," he said. "To me it's the same thing." That

Tiffany Reisz

#3. The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Michael Kors

#4. At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Mos Def

#5. I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

Gail Collins

#6. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.

Tim Krabbe

#7. I want you," he said, his grip becoming firmer. "I wanted you from the very beginning, I just never thought it would be possible.

Karina Halle

#8. Fever supports the sick man, and love the lover.

Victor Hugo

#9. Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Sachin Tendulkar

#10. Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women in post-Christian America. The man whose desires are under the control of his reason is free. The man who does whatever occurs to him is a slave. Untold

Rod Dreher

#11. Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death

Tim Krabbe

#12. Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

Richard Simmons

#13. I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Alan Shepard

#14. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

John Hodgman

#15. he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

Gao Xingjian

#16. Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

Tim Krabbe