Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. – Esa Tikkannen, 1979 Category: Running
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. – P.Z. Pearce Category: Running
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. – William Tecumseh Sherman Category: Courage
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. – George MacDonald Category: Death
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. – Ron Silver Category: respect
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think its beautiful. Im such a romantic, and I always have been. – Portia de Rossi Category: Marriage