Russell Mael quotes

“I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.”
-- Russell Mael

#Horse Quotes #Winning Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.”
-- Russell Mael

#Thinking Quotes #Music Is Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.”
-- Russell Mael

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Rearview Mirror Quotes

“I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.”

“To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

“A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.”

“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”

“You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.”

“Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.”

“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”

“To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”

“But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.”