"In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit."

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Source : "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

Laura Hillenbrand

#Years Quotes #Newspapers Quotes #Inches Quotes

“When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.”
“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
“Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.”
“If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.”
“On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.”
“Then I feel soÂ happy and at the same time so sad,Â it's unimaginable.”
“We like to say medicare is uniquely Canadian, but Americans have Medicare too. Even the name. I can't actually determine where the name started, except that it appeared in the two countries at about the same time. Had the Vietnam War not occurred, the Americans would have had a Medicare system much like ours.”
“One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.”

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