Marathon Quote by Phil Hewitt

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To…

— William Shakespeare

“I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every possible way,…

— Tana French

“It may look as though I do not know how to start. Funny sight, the elderly gentleman who comes lumbering by, jowl flesh flopping,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who…

— Sara Baume

“He was a goat tethered to the peg of his own character and could only consume the riches of the earth that came within…

— Winston Graham

“Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay,…

— Samantha Sotto

“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself…

— Ivan Turgenev

“The man who was talking had ceased to be of human size or proportions but had become a Colossus whose silhouette swooned backwards and…

— Henry Miller

“That wild, dangerous part of him. He knew now where it was running, and to whom. He could never have known that the one…

— Thea Harrison

“Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go…

— Frederick Buechner

“Motive and opportunity rode along like two out of four apocalyptic equestrians, grinning with their bony death heads at us lesser humans as we…

— Craig Johnson