"Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage."

-- Edouard Herriot

#Horse Quotes #Fall Quotes #Race Quotes

“The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.”

Source : "Jill Soloway gave a pretty badass speech at the AFI last night" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2015.
“This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.”
“We spend our life until weâ€™re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.”
“The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.”
“It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.”
“We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.”
“We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.”
“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”

Source : William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65

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