Running Quotes · Page 112

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to…

— Dirk Nowitzki

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

— Ellie Goulding

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.

— Michele Jaffe

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

— Stephen King

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

— Alfonso Soriano

Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.

— Cheech Marin

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

— Frank Miller

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is…

— Peggy Fleming

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't…

— Peter Benchley

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who…

— Samuel L. Jackson

You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing.…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple…

— Joe Henderson

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after…

— Sri Chinmoy

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To…

— Hank Aaron

The great power in America is the corporations - we're a corporate country. We're run by a CEO and the stockholders have…

— Norman Mailer

In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much…

— Noam Chomsky

[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any…

— Jesse Owens

I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her…

— Eleanor Smeal

There's not much that doesn't get me stoked. I love what I do and am so passionate about it that I get…

— Sally Fitzgibbons

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day…

— William Faulkner

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many…

— Marc Andreessen

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

— Lee Daniels

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

— Bryan Cranston

“Most of them were running away from something―usually the law.”

— Jack Kerouac

A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

— Barry Sanders

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

— Haruki Murakami

“But now, my dear, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”

— A.S. Byatt

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

— Joan Van Ark

Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.

— Joan Benoit

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

— Epictetus

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

— Ray Lewis

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

— Bill McKibben

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

— Walter Lippmann