"You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper."

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Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

Dagobert D. Runes

#Horse Quotes #Train Quotes

“Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.”
“The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”
“People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.”
“I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?”

Source : Chloe Neill (2009). “Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.110, Penguin
“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”
“As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day of school, I've rarely missed work and I played all those straight games; my streak only ended when I broke my cheekbone.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net

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