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Running Quotes


"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."


"My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international."


"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."


"When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes."


"How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?"


"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."


"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."


"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."


"Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster."


"I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing."


"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."


"When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running."


"You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe."


"I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench."


"I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about."


"We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety."


"John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush."


"Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!"


"I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps."


"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."


"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."


"I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop."


"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."


"To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training."


"A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person."


"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"


"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."


"It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago."


"I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants."


"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."


"I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc."


"I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track."


"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."


"Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?"
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