Plumpton Racecourse Quotes & Sayings

Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture. — Vladimir Nabokov

I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed. I fled from the wrath of Brama through all the forests of Asia: Vishnu hated me: Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris: I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud. — Thomas De Quincey

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If the Britannica has taught me anything, it's to be more careful. I don't want to turn into an unseemly noun or verb or adjective someday. I don't want to be like Charles Boycott, the landlord in Ireland who refused to lower rents during a famine, leading to the original boycott. I don't want to be like Charles Lynch, who headed an irregular court that hung loyalists during the Revolutionary War. I can't have "Jacobs" be a verb that means staying home all the time or washing your hands too frequently. — A. J. Jacobs

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake. — William Mulock

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments. — Sathya Sai Baba

If you're right and my life sucks, I'll just have to marry an ugly, old billionaire. The first time he sees me naked, which will be on our honeymoon, he'll have a heart attack and die. I'll inherit his entire fortune. You can be my chauffeur. — Allison Burnett

Kissing her
is warm wet
dangerous magic.
Her mouth
conjures
a storm
inside me. — Kirk Diedrich

If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage. — Karen Marie Moning

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's. — Elisabeth Elliot

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed. — Daniel Cudmore

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. — T. S. Eliot

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it? — Ellen Willis