Verducci Cycling Quotes & Sayings

Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She — Gustave Flaubert

You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy. — Andre Agassi

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction. — Rose George

I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form. — Billy Collins

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. — William Scranton

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF. — Terry Pratchett

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not. — Amanda Palmer

Stupid thumb! Stupid boy! Step away Fallon, step away! — Toni Aleo

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana

Some of us learned long ago not to pee in the pool in which we swim., seeing the error in thinking that wealth-at-any-cost could buy you a new pool. — Karla Black