"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion.… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other,… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat… — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate.… — Swami Anand Milarepa Copy Share Image
Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. — Nancy Greene Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I… — Bryan Volpenhein Copy Share Image
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You must approach each test with the seriousness and passion that you would use to prepare to challenge your death. You must… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot… — Tori Murden Copy Share Image
