For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will… — Jacques Anquetil Copy Share Image
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers,… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
People should go to the works and experience them. Because just having an idea or picture in mind is absolutely not the… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would… — Pete Maravich Copy Share Image
[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank… — Laura Kightlinger Copy Share Image
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never… — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?"… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
People always ask you, 'What's your dream job?' This is my dream job. It really is a dream opportunity to have your… — Adam Schein Copy Share Image
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
If I’m not back in a few hours…well, I don’t want to think about that. I might change my mind about doing… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That… — Becky G Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of… — Paget Brewster Copy Share Image
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image