Jesse Owens Quotes

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1913 - March 31, 1980

Topics

FriendsBecomeAwardsDustGather

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

Joanne Harris

StarsSeaMeStillnessMagicHawaii

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

John Phillips Marquand

FatherSonHimAlwaysYearsDivide

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

Stacey D'Erasmo

LifeMePersonEmotionalEchoSongs

It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

Rodney Atkins

LoveSongDeepYouFindStrike

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

Mike McCready

MusicWritingSingingStartGuitar

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Mick Jagger

YourselfLongYouBackGoRight

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

Ludivine Sagnier

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I respect every gay man and woman. They're that way, and they just want to be happy.

Juan Pablo Galavis

RespectWomanManHappyBe Happy

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

Jonathan Miller

YouSeeBeenShouldNeurologist

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

Jonathan Brown

WifeEnvironmentYearCanadaBecome

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Don DeLillo

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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

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