Paul O Connell Quotes & Sayings

I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time. — Billy Mills

It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been. — John Fogerty

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? — Mark Twain

Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me! — Terry Pratchett

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. — Lemony Snicket

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen. — Alan Keith

Uncle Randolph ... for some reason, he'd contacted Frederick and Annabeth. He'd gotten them to Boston. All this time, Frederick and Annabeth hadn't known that my mom was dead and I was missing. It seemed impossible, but if it were true, why would Randolph tell them about it now? Without confronting him directly, I could think of only one way to get answers. His town house was in Back Bay, an easy walk from here. According — Rick Riordan

I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there. — Dominick Dunne

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. — Yehudi Menuhin

Why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self — Charles Dickens

The folly of one man is the fortune of another. — Francis Bacon

We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice. — Tom Stoppard