Parkrun Quotes & Sayings

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. — Bill Gates

Gabbe stepped forward. "Cam's right. I've heard the Scale speak of these shifts." She was tugging on the sleeves of her pale yellow cashmere cardigan as if she would never get warm. "They're called timequakes. They are ripples in our reality."
"And the closer he gets," Roland added, with his usual understated wisdom, "the closer we are to the terminus of his Fall, the more frequent and the more severe the timequakes will become. Time is faltering in preparation for rewriting itself."
"Like the way your computer freezes up more and more frequently before the hard drive crashes and erases your twenty-page term paper?" Miles said. Everyone looked at him in befuddlement. "What?" he asked. "Angels and demons don't do homework? — Lauren Kate

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. — Susan B. Anthony

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence. — Anne Rice

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news. — Muhammad Ali

You should move toward whatever changes, whatever surgeries, whatever renovations or alterations or restorations will create you in the glory you deserve, oh yes you should. And you should do it with your usual style, and you should do it without shame, and when you're healed up and ready we can go shopping for something fabulous to showcase the many wonders of you. But — S. Bear Bergman

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me. — Robin Trower

IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit — Buck Rodgers

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now. — Charles Dance

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. — Vince Cable

My head works in music, so there's always music there. — Ben Harper

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right. — Janet Morris

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. — Charles Krauthammer