Sebastian Coe Quotes

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

Sebastian Coe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ChangeMemoryPeopleOpportunities

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

CharacterSpaceMeShyNeedKid

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

John Battelle

GoogleFailOnlyFarThe Only Thing

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

John Gregory Dunne

LoveJusticeCriminal JusticeSystem

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

Megan McCafferty

GirlTogetherCompetitionPoetryWin

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

John Irving

LifeTalentMeMy LifeSayKind

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Robert Mueller

IntelligenceImpossibleInformation

You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

Tom Rath

TimePeopleEnjoyYouChooseMore

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

DoorPhilosophyTryingPlaceAchieve

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

Donald Hall

LiveWorldHousePlaceGrandfather

Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

Bobbie Ann Mason

ExperienceStartBookReadingBack

The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you need some serious help.

Shawn Amos

HelpYouSeriousKnowEntertainment

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

Shawn Amos

GratefulDeadOverWoodstockOut

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Sebastian Coe