Churchill Downs Incorporated Quotes & Sayings

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings. — Josh Silver

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading. — Philip Larkin

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best today; better tomorrow, — Ben Bradlee

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. — Chris Cleave

The only American soldier convicted in the [My Lai Massacre in Vietnam], Lieutenant William Calley, served three months under house arrest. What the massacre drove home to me was that Oriental life was not terribly valuable. You could extinguish hundreds of Orientals - unarmed villagers, farmers, women, toddlers, infants - and the penalty would be napping and watching television in your apartment for twelve weeks. — Alex Tizon

I've found in composing that being simple and profound - having in-depthness in your music - is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something ... But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear? — Horace Silver

They took lots of things they had no right to. — Holly Black

We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular. — Philip Davies

I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain. — Richard Brautigan