Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand Quotes & Sayings

Let out of his stall with the two men standing by, Seabiscuit head-butted Howard. Smith made his case in four sentences: Get me that horse. He has real stuff in him. I can improve him. I'm positive — Laura Hillenbrand

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything. — Isabel Allende

Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way. — Laura Hillenbrand

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met. — Laura Hillenbrand

Discipline is creating the situation. — Shunryu Suzuki

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years. — Laura Hillenbrand

In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit. — Laura Hillenbrand

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.' — Laura Hillenbrand

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. — Nick Harkaway

I'll be an easier subject than Seabiscuit, because I can talk." Louis Zamperini to Laura Hillenbrand. — Laura Hillenbrand

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts. — Celia Thaxter

Compliments you get free, the complaints you've to earn it. — Sarvesh Jain

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. — Laura Hillenbrand