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Quotes About Running

Listen—I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; he would turn to look; but the prettier the face, the harder it was to take the plunge.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
~ Larry Wilcox
I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!
~ lasorda tommy
He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Non correva via da qualcosa o verso qualcosa, non correva per qualcuno o a dispetto di qualcuno: correva perché era quello che il suo corpo desiderava fare. L'irrequietezza, l'insicurezza e il bisogno di contrapporsi scomparvero. Tutto quello che sentiva era pace.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
In the morning he rose to run again. He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Outside again, the river was invisible in the dark, but I could feel it swell and sink beneath the lawn as I ran back to the office, as if the earth were a membrane, a blister, filling up fast with water or blood, as if I were running across the back of a bruise, thinking it was the world.
~ Laura Kasischke
She ran off singing One Direction like a screaming baby, 'n' I was like: 'OMG, REALLY?
~ Lauren Johnson
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
~ Lauren Oliver
the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.
~ Laurence Bergreen
American democracy deals with unpopular or unwise presidents by checking them, balancing them, and running out the clock on their four-year term.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara , which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon , which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Ma viene un momento, certe volte, che una ha paura del tempo che passa, e non sa più se val la pena di correre tanto.
~ Cesare Pavese
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
~ Channing Pollock
I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.
~ Charles Dickens
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
~ Jeff Bezos
The wormhole makes tangible the most basic truths of existence. You cannot see the future. You cannot change the past. All of life consists of running into darkness. This is why I'm here.
~ Greg Egan
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
~ Groucho Marx
the laws of Newton, appropriate tools for a clockmaker deity who could create a world and set it running for eternity.
~ James Gleick
I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific substances the hospital tried to pass off as food, and then, when we got discharged, running away and stealing cars together.
~ James Patterson
Gautier was possibly dead, probably dead. I ran as I shouted, "Take
~ James Patterson
dark, arms pumping, stumbling
~ James Patterson