Quotes About Running

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

We listened as he and his wife told us their wildlife stories. I wasn't sure why, but they seemed to really hate emus. I think it was because a panicked, running emu could put a hole right through the fence.

The sun! The sun! And all we can become And the time ripe for running to the moon!

This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.

Love flies, runs, and rejoices. It is free and nothing can hold it back.

Awkward disturbances will arise; people will not submit to have their throats cut quietly; they will run, they will kick, they will bite; and, whilst the portrait painter often has to complain of too much torpor in his subject, the artist, in our line, is generally embarrassed by too much animation.

Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

Look, I don't want to edit the 'Scotsman.' I have too many other things going on. I have four newspapers to run and two dot com companies going gangbusters.

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Served her right, he thought, riling him up the way she had. Hurt your foot? The amused and satisfied tone didn't escape her notice. I stepped on a rock while I was running after this big, stupid culo. Which would be me.

she was running because she still could.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

I won­der if run­ning is just an­oth­er fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a fix to a prob­lem I can't re­mem­ber.

We were all runing from something. Vaginoplasty. Aging. The future.

Every apostle or disciple, Mrs. Clark says, as much as they're running to follow their savior - they're running just as hard to escape something else.

It was crazy to run and crazy not to run. How could a boy look past the school's property line, see that free and living world beyond, and not contemplate a dash to freedom? To write one's own story for once. To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one's humanity

life allowed to waste like a tap left running.

By the bold and running use of metaphor he will amplify and give us, not the thing itself, but the reverberation and reflection which, taken into his mind, the thing has made; close enough to the original to illustrate it, remote enough to heighten, enlarge, and make splendid.

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight