Bill Shoemaker Quotes

#1. Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work

Tamara Ireland Stone

#2. If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker

#3. I am not yours, she thought. I am my own.

Ruth Warburton

#4. I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

Meredith Monk

#5. Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Aldous Huxley

#6. When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Shoemaker

#7. The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Paul Tillich

#8. Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Winston Churchill

#9. There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Bill Shoemaker

#10. Because you're the first woman I've brought into my home and all I can think about is getting your beautiful body naked and fucking you senseless. I need to know if there is any competition. I don't share, Natalie.

Kristen Proby

#11. If you've had the time to think about it, then you have time to pursue it.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#12. [Louise Colet was a p]roto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.

Julian Barnes

#13. The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#14. The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

Bill Shoemaker

#15. When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#16. I want to live like a kid,
Away from bothering about others,
Smile without reason but true from heart,
Cry little harder instead of keeping hard things inside,
Stand up again with more determination when i fall,
And enjoy the gift of life by sharing gift of smile with others.

Nitish Sharma

#17. 38. "A wet bird never flies at night." (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

James C. Dobson

#18. The most awesome powers are those not wielded.

Brian Rathbone

#19. Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Ashim Shanker

#20. Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Shoemaker

#21. I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Bill Shoemaker