#ld

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aside #become #been #break #career

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#down #effectively #filing #get #heavier

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#big #cinematic #creating #described #had

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#characters #children #enjoying #i #important

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#fails #getting #getting old #high-level #i

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#car #drive #fishing #get #hate

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#had #impulsive #instead #marriage #short-lived

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#most #needed #provided #real #real world

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#advocating #allies #asking #business #business community