Quotes About Greyhounds

#1. The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.

Walter Scott

#2. It's kind of interesting you're driving a car big enough for a wolfhound and a mastiff to get in the back of today," I said.
"And a greyhound, a dark brown bear, and a brindle utility vehicle," said Jill.
"Greyhounds don't take up much room," I said. "They're like dog silhouettes.

Robin McKinley

#3. If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.

Alice Hoffman

#4. Having actually read the Voltaire in question, I can confirm the quote is, as different from ours as the breed of spaniels is from that of greyhounds," Nicholas said coldly. "Interesting, though, that in the end we're all just dogs.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. Down the hall I could hear the thud of basketballs, the blare of the time-out horn, and the shouts of the crowd as the sports-beasts fought: Lisbon Greyhounds versus Jay Tigers.
Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?

Stephen King

#6. When they argue they're like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don't see the landscape. You see the rabbit.

Stephen King

#7. The swift greyhounds chased him for hours, wearing the wolf down, tiring him out so he would be too weak to give more than a token fight at the end.

He remembered this tactic well from when he had been the hunter on the horse....

At least I know what happens next.

E.D. Walker

#8. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry - God for Harry! England and Saint George!

William Shakespeare

#9. When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next 'Get it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic - and looked the part.

Erik Larson

#11. I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.

Tim Daly

#12. You know what's really good is a greyhound in the shower.

Nick Thune

#13. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#14. I thought suddenly Look. If Kambei had stopped recruiting when the first samurai didn't work out a 205-minute masterpiece of modern cinema would have been over at minute 32.

Helen DeWitt

#15. You either want to be humble and enlighten the world, or you want to be appreciated and reflect the darkness in the world.

Robin Sacredfire

#16. I'm bored, lalalallalalala OLLI OXEN SOMETHING!!

Bob Smith

#17. To Pussy
(1981-1995)

Martin McDonagh

#18. In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Jamie Redknapp

#19. Yes I am aware of the rules.
Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.
Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.
That gives my soul its melodies.

Malebo Sephodi

#20. Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

Piccolo Fortunato

#21. Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Burt Ward

#22. The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

Frederick Lenz