T.W. Shannon Quotes
At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.
I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet
You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
Who knows where I would be if I didn't come to L.A. I probably would have been locked up or dead.
INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement.
A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?
If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.
You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD
Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?
No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.
A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.
You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word
My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.
She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady
I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.
She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.
