Anquetil Jacques Quotes & Sayings

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water. — Jacques Anquetil

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now. — Aaron Allston

Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. — Stephen Chbosky

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. — Helene Cixous

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman. — Jacques Anquetil

It was eleven more than neccessary. — Jacques Anquetil

There are no races. Only lotteries. — Jacques Anquetil

Chance determines our lives in important ways. — Gerhard Richter

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants — Jacques Anquetil

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it. — Marguerite Yourcenar

As I moved past him and into the house, I resolved to talk to Cal like a mature grown-up person. Eventually. For now, I gave him a little wave and ran away to my room. — Rachel Hawkins

Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope. — Jacques Anquetil

I guess when you believe the word of a complete liar, logic doesn't come into it. — A.S. King

You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants. — Jacques Anquetil

I crashed the pipe murderously down onto his mouth and heard his upper teeth shatter at the gums. — Billy O'Connor

[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it. — Proclus

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. — Jeff Cooper

Start looking for joy and you'll find it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. — Seymour Papert

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him. — J.R. Miller