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Roger Bannister Quotes

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: british
Birth: March 23, 1929

Topics

Family Great People Small Village

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

Jens Voigt

Funny Stupidity Hell Laugh You Jump

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

John Deacon

Thought Segregation More Naive Like

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

Max Irons

Good Character Yourself Me Start

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

John Scalzi

Government You I Can Cheese Taste

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Room Wear Writers

I just want to be a better fighter, plain and simple.

Robbie Lawler

Simple Better Want Fighter Just

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

Romelu Lukaku

Father Home Football School Me Team

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

Mick Mars

Sick Sickness Others Just Private

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

Christie Hefner

Money Day Never Earn Because

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness True Happiness Find True

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

Anson Mount

Feel Enemy Need I Feel Exposition

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Plato

Best Man Victory Hands Defeat Worst