Mules Quotes - Page 4

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

William Shockley

Ties, Fire, Energy

"The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.

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I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

Josh Turner

Girl, Country, Real

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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Dog, Horse, Rain

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

Johannes Kepler

Time, Dirty, Feet

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Alice Walker

People, Heaven, Black

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Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

Neko Case

Independent, Rocks, Band

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Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

Robert Jordan

Men, Stones, Als

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I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"

Zbigniew Brzezinski

War, Stupid, Thinking

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One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

Gary Miller

Horse, War, Army

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What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Eugene Field

Men, Smell, Smoking

Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

Vladimir Nabokov

Fashion, Past, Years

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Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go.

Rosalie Maggio

Editors, People, Want

Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.30, Open Road Media

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Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Trenton Lee Stewart

School, Two, Giving

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sight, Social Taboos, Seven

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I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

George Strait

Hunting, Utah, Texas

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Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

Luc Sante

Memories, Self, Names

"Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!

Gordon Korman

Character, Twenties, Amy

Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

Robert Evans

Believe, Thinking, Two

"Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

Oprah Winfrey

Special, Six, Needs

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The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Dark, Light, Black

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I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

Nolan Gould

Fun, Believe, Kayaking

"Nolan Gould, ‘Modern Family’ Actor, Heads To The Grand Canyon With Sierra Club", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.

Samuel Crompton

Science, Perfect, Desire

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Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

Robert Jordan

Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Francois Rabelais

Faith, Silly, Player

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