Dismounting Quotes & Sayings

The clockwork men and women fated to maneuver the oars twenty-four hours per day until the ship reached its destination had turned their silent voices to song as they bent their backs to row. They sang not in any human language but in the secret language of the mechanicals. A shanty sung in the click-tick-click of clockwork bodies, the crash of tapped feet, the clatter of metal hands gripping banded wooden spars. — Ian Tregillis

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them. Gallop through life and without dismounting your horse manage (like a Cossack!) to pick up bits of otherworldliness lying on the path. Feed your imagination that way. That way, shape your destiny. — Philippe Petit

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge. — Nicholas Drayson

I've never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow. — Stan Goff

She sits quite still, her possessions gathered into her hand for dismounting. She is looking ahead, to where the road curves on and away, crossslanted with shadows. — William Faulkner

You're a lunatic!"
Travis chuckled, leaning his bike onto its kickstand before dismounting. "I went the speed limit."
"Yeah, if we were on the Autobahn! — Jamie McGuire

One morning, as he sat at his desk, he heard the sound of a horse's hooves on the path outside his house. He stepped out on to the verandah. There, on a tall grey horse, sat Morgane. 'I've come to have my picture painted,' she said. She took off her hat and her long black hair cascaded below her shoulders. 'You said you would,' she added, before dismounting. She wore a pair of moleskin jodhpurs and a white shirt, open at the neck. Her skin was radiant from the African sun. — P.B. North

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. — Genghis Khan

happening to Amazon's core principles? — Anonymous

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent, — Bill Walsh

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. — Adam Michnik

Together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world. — Rose Tremain

The prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett

You know you really have to beware of gypsies in these parts," he said teasingly, dismounting from his horse ... Keirah gave him a small smile that she didn't quite feel. "Good thing I have the Gwarda here to protect me," she teased back. — Madison Thorne Grey