Running Quotes

Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l’escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

One thing you don’t want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.

Never run a bluff with a six-gun.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.

I was scared of the Bible – it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus’s disciples and I used to show them modern life – how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn’t change my feelings about the Bible jinx.