Zagunis Quotes

#1. Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person who came before me. It's more like, "Yeah, I'm doing my thing and what happens, happens," and fortunately those have been some pretty amazing results.

Mariel Zagunis

#2. I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There's no reason for me to stop.

Mariel Zagunis

#3. She can't make me," Gansey said.
"She doesn't have to," Ronan sniffed. "Mama's boy."
"Dream me a solution."
"Don't have to. Nature already gave you a spine. You know what I say? Fuck Washington.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#5. Food really is fuel - and hydration as well - but for athletic activity, you really got to take it seriously, or else it can negatively impact your performance.

Andrew Luck

#6. It's a hard loss when you lose by one point.

Mariel Zagunis

#7. At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Sophia Amoruso

#8. For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

Mariel Zagunis

#9. In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

Bertrand Russell

#10. With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

Mariel Zagunis

#11. My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

Mariel Zagunis

#12. Babies move more than books and aren't as conveniently shaped.

Gabrielle Zevin

#13. Most people will actually tell you, traveling to those exotic places is enjoying life, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from.

Nancy B. Brewer

#15. Most of us want to have enough ... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Rick Warren

#16. There's no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they're merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe.

Daniel Marques

#17. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

#18. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Frances Farmer

#19. I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."

Johnny Carson

#20. I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Virginia Woolf