Sunlighted Quotes & Sayings

You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that. — Steve Ovett

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish. — Joan Smalls

I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know. — Rod Steiger

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations. — Charles Taylor

My music is like my freedom space. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective. — Waris Ahluwalia

The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork
for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz. — Annie Dillard

Drinking coffee was one of the activities that didn't make the transition to microgravity well, but at half a g, it was fine. — James S.A. Corey

Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett

Which just goes to prove. Not everybody can be Herman Cappachino. Whatever that means. — A. J. Jacobs

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature. — George W. Bush

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level. — Deborah Cox

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can. — Cheng Fei

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song. — F Scott Fitzgerald

God is good. He is way more interested in developing our characters to match our calling than in manipulating our circumstances to make us happy. — Lysa TerKeurst

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine. — Diana Krall