Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. It's the one characteristic all runners, as different as they are, se...em to share.... Stick with it. Push yourself. Keep running. And you'll never lose that wonderful sense of individuality you now enjoy. Right, comrade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able... to take the damn thing off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must le...ap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Pawley: Do ya think maybe's there's a chance we still might find her? Ethan Edwards: Injun'll chase a thing 'til he th...inks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end. I promise ya. We'll find 'em, just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You that do search for every purling spring Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,... And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows Near thereabouts into your poesy wring; You that do dictionary's method bring Into your rhymes, running in rattling rows;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,... Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin, a woman hasn't got any political opinions. I run this farm to suit myself. I'll shoot the daylights out of anybody--Britis...h, Indian or American--that thinks he can come around here monkeyin' in my business. That satisfy ya?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »