Off The Track Thoroughbred Quotes & Sayings

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. — John Hodgman

I wish to remain to remember that stanzas go on — Gertrude Stein

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now. — Catherine Marshall

Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person. — David Sedaris

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will. — Coleman Dowell

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

The public at large have learned to understand, and I am afraid a whole generation of economists have been teaching, that government has the power in the short run by increasing the quantity of money rapidly to relieve all kinds of economic evils, especially to reduce unemployment. Unfortunately this is true so far as the short run is concerned. The fact is, that such expansions of the quantity of money which seems to have a short run beneficial effect, become in the long run the cause of a much greater unemployment. But what politician can possibly care about long run effects if in the short run he buys support? — Friedrich Hayek

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia. — Jane Chen

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias. — Paul A. Offit

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach. — Teresa Medeiros

We forge the chains we wear in life. — Charles Dickens

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that. — Brian McKnight