"A jump jockey has to throw his heart……" — Dick Francis
"A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it."
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20 Quotes by Dick Francis
Dick Francis has 20 quotes on this site.
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography:…
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THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one…
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Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
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Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you.…
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I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone…
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But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they'll…
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont…
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Good manners are a sign of strength.
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Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
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The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb…
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More Catch Quotes
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one of 2,066 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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