Matadors Quotes

• In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.

  Carly Fiorina

  Animal, Different, Bullfighting

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• My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Holiday, Sight, Feelings

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• The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.

  Muhammad Ali

  Stronger, Bulls, Smarter

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2014

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• In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

  Tara Brach

  Fighting, Long, Safety

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.64, Random House

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• A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Skills

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• Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

  El Cordobes

  Inspirational, Courage, Believe

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• It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

  Jase Robertson

  Lines, Rodeo, Clown

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Athlete, Power

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The second somebody dies somebody else is born
  People are celebrating while other people morn
  Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign
  Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

  Aceyalone

  Home, People, Hip Hop

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• I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Flower, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

  George Orwell

  Wall, Years, Dating

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Spy, Crowns, Tailors

  Source: collider.com

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• I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

  David Lehman

  Book, Technique, Metaphor

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