“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”
Lance Armstrong
“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego like an automobile”
William Rootes
“The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.”
Norman Thomas
“For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted”
Frantz Fanos
“Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.”
“I'm ready to take over, ... When Lance was in there it was a little bit different -- you follow Lance, the big leader. ... Now I feel now it's my moment.”
Ivan Basso
“No lance have I, in joust or fight, To splinter in my lady's sight; But, at her feet, how blest were I For any need of hers to die!”
John Greenleaf Whittier