Polanyis Quotes & Sayings

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points. — Caitlyn Jenner

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen. — Richard Bach

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do. — Gore Verbinski

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in. — Nick Mason

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy. — Hillary Clinton

My sister, the one who knows everything and pulls out facts out of a bottomless hat, told me people aren't afraid of snakes or water upon birth. It is only once we hear the snake and water stories, she says, once we are exposed to fear, that we deny our primal instincts and make room for the dread to take root and mature. — Tania Aebi

Happy Valentine's... Let's wear costumes! — Ray Palla

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her. — Jonathan Dee

There are ovens at Ralph's, big ones. And no one has taken the frozen turkeys. Figure two hundred and fifty kids if pretty much everyone from Perdido Beach shows up, right? One turkey will feed maybe eight people, so we need thirty-one, thirty-two turkeys. No problem there, because there are forty-six turkeys at Ralph's." "Thirty-one — Michael Grant

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing. — Olaf Stapledon

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. — Walter Gilbert