#ma

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

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. ↗

— William Banting

#become #bodily #history #matters #mere

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued. ↗

— William Banting

#am #believing #demonstrate #further #gradual

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#acting #error #high #high wire #like

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#camera #face #hepburn #made

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

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch? ↗

— Christine Baranski

#drink #lunch #martinis #really #several

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. ↗

— Red Barber

#i #imagine #large #large audience #person

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#matters #obscene #pass #smutty #very