“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsYearsLongRunningUsedStarsEnvironmentOne ThingThis WorldFootballCollegeComfortablePreparedNutsSeniorCollege FootballSenior Year Author:Donal Logue
“I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.” HomeRunningUsedFeltClubsSurfaceRelays Author:Paula Radcliffe
“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.” ChildrenLongDifferentRunningSchoolAmericaUsedWatchesGrowing UpGrowingFansBrotherHugeSceneJokesYeahGoldenMy BrotherFamily And FriendsMurphyAfter SchoolComing To AmericaInside JokesGolden Child Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.” RunningUsedFatherSingersIslandsAuctionsCanaries Author:Jason Statham
“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?” ThinkingWellsRunningFilmUsedEffectsTelevisionIndustryUsed To BeDigitalVisionariesFilm And TelevisionTelevision Industry Author:Bill Mumy
“I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.” StillsRunningUsedStrongMachinesLegsUsed To BeBikeTriathlon Author:Pat Bowlen
“I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.” ThinkingNeedsPersonsStatesHappensRunningUsedStrong Author:Mike Curb
“I came out of retirement to run a start-up, Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.” RunningLastsUsedSickRetirementVacationPuppyVacation TimeSick Days Author:Maynard Webb
“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.” WorldHas BeensMadeRunningUsedRaceSeeingHavensExampleErrorsAccidentsChampionRacingWeekendNeverthelessTrapsCircuitsHorrificWorld ChampionsGravelSchumacher Author:Jackie Stewart
“In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.” MenUseRunningUsedPoliticsTenPicksThirdsOvercomingOver ItOne ManQuartersSenatorsCongressmanKinderPerspiration Author:Will Rogers
“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.” MenBigsRunningTodayUsedLeftPresidentBusinessLeaderHavensTownsRaisedVicesPassingPassingsSmall TownVice PresidentPassing It Author:Will Rogers
“They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.” DoeHas BeensBodyBigsRunningAbleUsedDiesPayGoneDyingTaxesBeatsPercentFortuneYour BodyExpensiveEmsOver YouAssetsInheritanceDroppingUndertakerInheritance Tax Author:Will Rogers
“You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.” YearsRunningRememberUsedThreeLifetimeExplanationFrankGood And BadBad DayGood And Bad Days Author:Tom Dreesen
“Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.” FeelsTryingHardFactsRunningUsedFightingUnderstoodHard TimesMmaRunning AwayDealing With It Author:Rashad Evans
“No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.” RunningKidsTodayUsedAmountWalkingBasketballTrainingShoesTrackExtremesBags Author:Edwin Moses
“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.” PeopleKnowsPersonsTwoHardShowsRunningRememberUsedBlackRocksMonthsBlack PeopleRemember WhenHboBlack Person Author:Scott Raab
“I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.” PeopleRunningUsedRealizingDesperation Author:Betty Hutton
“When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.” HardRunningUsedDifficultCareersComfortableShoesBarefoot Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.” MenWellsMadeHandsRunningUsedMotherBornOfficeBuiltClaimsEvery ManUsed To BePublic LifeCabinsPublic OfficeLog Cabins Author:William J. Clinton
“Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly.” IfsMayDoneGovernmentRunningUsedEventsSellsHopefullyCorporationsSoftwareRamaMultinationalsMultinational CorporationsSupercomputersMainframe Author:Frederick Lenz
“We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the same, if not worse. It's terrifying... It seems the better the quality, the more you're penalised... There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. They put fame ahead of talent and think someone from 'EastEnders' will put bums on seats.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingShowsSeemsRunningUsedGamesQualityPrinciplesTalentTelevisionFoolFameVery GoodSeatsGood PeopleBugsMockScrewed UpGame Shows Author:Philip Glenister
“In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.” MadeFactsRunningUsedWorstPicksWorst MovieCannonballs Author:Gene Siskel
“The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.” FeelsLongPlayHappensRunningKidsActionUsedStuffLong TimeHappeningsThrillingDivingBlowing Up Author:Stanley Tucci
“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.” ThinkingMindI CanFactsRealityRunningAbleUsedLanguageDesignCollegeTestsEquipmentVirtual RealityLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.” PeopleThinkingRunningUsedLeftImagineMirrorsMajorityLikesOddMinoritiesDelusionElitesOdd ThingsMirror Image Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.” WayWritingTryingWellsLooksHelpingRunningUsedReadingLiteratureProcessLosesWrittenToolsRunning AwayEscapismLosing Yourself Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.” ChildrenEndsHandsBigsRunningUsedMotherNationsBrainBoysPowerHeardRight NowSticks Author:Jane Jacobs
“I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.” PeopleRunningAbleUsedInterestCar Author:John Waters
“People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!” PeopleWellsRunningUsedFourImpossibleStreetsCrowdsCall MeGauntlet Author:Sean Connery
“When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.” ShowsHomeRunningUsedTvsLateSeriesCyclesRoutineTv ShowsUp EarlyRepetitiveGoing Home Author:Philip Glenister
“I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.” FactsRunningUsedHousePride Author:Michael Learned