A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

A Polish guy locked his keys in the car. It took an hour to get his wife out.

Hate is more interesting than love.

I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down the book and says, "Oh, it's one of those guys."

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.