#rack

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#always #business #class #come #getting

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#games #i #know #like #many

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#change #comes #down #down to earth #earth

I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#competed #doing #forever #i #kickboxing

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#dream #high #high school #i #like

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#barack #barack obama #coming #day #end

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #category

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever