Jilted Jockey Quotes

#1. Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

H. P. Blavatsky

#2. The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

Frank Thomas

#3. How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Donald Barthelme

#4. Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

David Horsey

#5. She's my fucking anchor, and no one will take her from me again, not even to save this world.

Amelia Hutchins

#6. At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed.

Lindsay Fox

#7. The furtive closing of a door is a sound the wind can make a dozen times in an hour. A flow of damp air from the lake can make any house feel empty. Such currents pull one's dreams after them, and one's own dread is always mirrored upon the dread that inheres in things.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. I have no clue what happened to my best friend, the one who played with me on the playground when no one else would. But this Logan ... " She gestured from my shoes on up. "This Logan can kiss my ass.

Lisa Kessler

#9. In war, only the simple succeeds.

Paul Von Hindenburg

#10. This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.

Chuck Hagel

#11. But they are only the faces of the dead. Coming into detail as we hurtle toward them. They see us, too. Fingers scratching at the ice's rough underside, desperate to be the first to pull us down.

Andrew Pyper

#12. I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

Tove Lo

#13. Men look at breasts the way women look at babies. 'Aw, isn't that lovely.'

Dylan Moran

#14. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins