Racecourse Quotes & Sayings

I still hankered to be back on the racecourse, but getting the funds for yet another assault on the ring was proving difficult. Could I track Sting down? — James Berryman

learning eachother by do it together... growing together by understanding eachother... — Toge Aprilianto

Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty. — Louise Penny

I have an unending shoe closet. In fact, I don't even know how many shoes I have. — Sonam Kapoor

I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. — Lynne Tillman

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. — Al Capone

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse. — Winston Graham

Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around. — Carl Panzram

A bit less obvious is the metaphor for human history, course, which refers to a path of running or flowing, as in the course of a river, a racecourse, and a headlong course. The metaphor is that A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IS MOTION ALONG A PATHWAY, a special case of the TIME IS MOTION metaphor we met in the previous chapter. — Steven Pinker

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people. — Art Buchwald

Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically. — Tony McCoy

You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West. — Jeffrey Bernard

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis. — Marvin Sapp

I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area. — J.G. Ballard

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions ... — Pliny The Elder

This is Akram Vignan [Akram Science - the stepless spiritual science of direct realization of the Self]. Once you pull out from the racecourse [competitive worldly life], your 'personality' will shine then. Those in the racecourse will never have personality; not a single person. — Dada Bhagwan

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. — Michel De Montaigne

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing. — Clement Freud

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. — James Joyce