Benjamin Cheever quotes

“At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.”
-- Benjamin Cheever

Source : Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.16, Rodale

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“Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.”
-- Benjamin Cheever

Source : Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.93, Rodale

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“Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.”
-- Benjamin Cheever

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“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press

“Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.”

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”

“I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine”

Source : Song: Water

“My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.”

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”

“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”

“The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.26, Penguin