Quotes
Authors
Alexandra Bracken
"Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her." --
Alexandra Bracken
#Beautiful Quotes
#Horse Quotes
#Work Out Quotes
“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.”
“It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.”
“I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."”
“We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.”
“A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.”
“What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.”
“You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.”
“When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.”