Winning London Quotes

#1. Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail ... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#3. I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

Jenny Lewis

#4. I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

Edwidge Danticat

#5. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

Sebastian Coe

#6. Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Douglas William Jerrold

#7. We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

#8. There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

William Matthews

#9. All trials are trials for one's life.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

Emma Donoghue

#11. London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Hope Solo

#12. As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#13. They baffle me where they go with the storylines ... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

Jeremy London

#14. The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. I belong to the world.I'm in a relationship with the world.

Jhene Aiko

#16. Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

Mike Ingham

#17. Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge.
Amen.

Marianne Williamson

#18. In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.

Daniel Boulud

#19. Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

Stephen Colbert