Kentucky Derby Day Quotes & Sayings

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts. — Melina Sempill Watts

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. — Camille Paglia

You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to. — Elizabeth Strout

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish. — Richard C. Armitage

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. — Cecil Taylor

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found. — Joan Rivers

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do — Ann Patchett

Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know. — George Harrison

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it. — Shane Claiborne

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action. — J.P. Moreland

"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger. — Kenny Smith

Every woman should own a shirtdress — Michael Kors

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow
intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might
lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. — Bill Shorten

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water. — Nathaniel Hawthorne