Cockfights Quotes & Sayings

A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way. — Neel Burton

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing. — Doyle Brunson

There was something so consuming about the way his eyes took me in, I almost felt his gaze like a real touch — Becca Fitzpatrick

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11. — Susanna Moore

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year. — Keith Thibodeaux

No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. — John Wolcot

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories. — Italo Calvino

And I don't want to be a part of the 'who's got the bigger sword?' contest you two have going on, either. I don't do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well. — Lisa Renee Jones

I hope to always be able to relate to my fans and be in the moment with the world and the community. I think as you gain popularity it's easy to loose touch and become disconnected. — Tristan Prettyman

Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fueled night when a blaze set in her apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands Jess a child-killer, she starts to believe it herself. — M.R. Carey

Physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world," and that "we have measured the value of the world with categories that refer to a purely fabricated world. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. — Michelle Cliff

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away. — Paul Simon

Lament
For J
Among the small graves a soft shaft of sunlight gently rains
On a memory; etches, as a glittering finger,
Golden corn field hair, ignites eyes sweet as the seas blue plains,
Traces lips pink as Marys carnation tears and lingers
Then is gone. Oh ancient sun above how shall I tell
Of the hearts deep yearnings that the years can never quell? — Alan James Roll

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse. — Mark Batterson

The funny thing is, in reality we all just presume that life is going to happen when we wake up in the morning. What if it didn't? — A. Antares