Ours Quotations | Page 3

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events,

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

The potential costs and risks for all three governments are too large to expect any one of them to alter course greatly

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

We're going to kill ourselves if we keep trying to make these (cartoons) with just the two of us, and a few guys in the office.

We're going to have to win eventually, ... But the question was do we have to win on February 3? Of course we want to. But we don't have to. What we've got to do is amass as many delegates as we can.

We're going to have to win against Germany and Italy. We have to enjoy this moment for a couple of hours today.

We're going to have to play well and keep getting better. We want to make a run at the end of the year, so we have to use these games to prepare ourselves for that. Hopefully we can win them in the process. We're going to go after them.