Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and...
Theoden: Six thousand spears. Less than half of what I'd hoped for. Aragorn: Six thousand will not be enough to break the lines of Mordor. Theoden: More will come. Aragorn: Every hour lost hastens Gondor's defeat. We have 'til dawn, then we must ride...
Theoden: A great host, you say? Aragorn: All Isengard is emptied. Theoden: How many? Aragorn: Ten thousand strong at least. Theoden: [astonished] Ten thousand? Aragorn: It is an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the world of men. They will b...
I’ll never understand why some people can’t just let others live their lives, you know,” Danial said. “You don’t have to understand. You don’t have to agree. Just leave people alone. When I look at the moon and planets and stars, all that...
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
The first thousand are the hardest.
Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
I’ve been to 8 Mile. I condensed a half marathon into it.
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.
