Famous quotes containing the words night, attack and/or version:
“Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... Its grueling. Theres nothing physically pleasurable about it. If youre doing a hard workout, youre throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.”
—Diana Nyad (b. 1949)
“Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other peoples qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.”
—Terri Apter (20th century)
“Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)