Roger Bannister Quotes

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Roger Bannister

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Joanna Lumley

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I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the Art Institute in Chicago, I simply never became involved in sculpture. I did prints, and I did paintings.

Robert Indiana

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I approach any collaboration I do differently.

Matthew Williamson

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You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

Jean Smart

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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

Amy Ray

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One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.

Spike Milligan

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Surprise is a huge element in acting.

Simon Helberg

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I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Trishelle Cannatella

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Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

Ruby Dee

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I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, in a strange way. That's what you got when you worked hard.

Mick Foley

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I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.

Jorge M. Perez

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If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.

Dimitri Payet

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