Riding Quotes - Page 3

• I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Actors, Littles

  "Testing Himself". Maureen Dowd, The New York Times (section 6, p. 16, column 1), September 28, 1986.

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• If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Media, Today

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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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• Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, People, Giving

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• Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

  Phil Keoghan

  Basics, Wallets, Bicycle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

  Alfred Noyes

  Moon, Doors, Wind

  "The Highwayman" l. 3 (1907)

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• Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.

  Moyra Davey

  Distance, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Children, Play

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• Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cat, Dark

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• God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

  Djuna Barnes

  Children, Bed, Red

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

  Joe Meno

  Moving, Heart, Dark

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.114, Akashic Books

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• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Parent, Age

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• Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.

  John Flanagan

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.83, Random House

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• Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Pigs, Blue

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place? Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.

  Takehiko Inoue

  Thinking, Alive, Firsts

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• The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is. We need to wake up in order to rediscover our human sovereignty. We are riding a horse that is running out of control. The way of salvation is a new culture in which human beings are encouraged to rediscover their deepest nature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Horse, Order

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• A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Meditation, Littles

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Bowdrie”, p.68, Bantam

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• Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

  Laura Esquivel

  Horse, Childhood, Jars

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Night, Light

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 19, 2016

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• Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, First Love, Should Have

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clothes, Different, Handsome

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air and your socks are a tough ripe, to put it mildly." Oh, sorry!" said Horace, tugging the riding boot back on over his sock. Now that Halt mentioned it, he was aware of a rather strong odor in the room.

  John Flanagan

  Strong, Sorry, Thinking

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• My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Father, Twilight

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Two

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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• I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Distance, Mirrors, Bmw

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.164, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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