County fair Quote by Jaimy Gordon Download Open image ““this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair… this is horse racing”” — Jaimy Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare County fair Horse racing
“Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I… — Earle Gray Copy Share Image
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump. — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
“the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus. — James Maxton Copy Share Image
“I am humanely destroyed, I am the horseplayer who became the racetrack.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every… — Mark Spragg Copy Share Image
“Her hands felt their way blindly along the ridges and canyons and defiles of the spine, the firm root-spread hillocks of the withers. She… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“He had long since observed that Elizabeth had superfluous IQ for her line of work, and inside all that free space in her brain… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns,… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“The Mahdi rolls along the path to the race track as red, broad and shining as a John Deere tractor…” — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“But Little Spinoza was only interested in that satchel-bellied ten-dollar billy goat. First he jumped back like insulted when the goat lift his head… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“I was an easy birth, and I have never regretted it. Not even for a visit would I return to the womb. I never… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However,… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
“It was the way your sweet, soft hands wiped away my tears, and the way your body just curved into mine when you let… — Katie Ashley Copy Share Image
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
“If you’re single and you’re not having the greatest fun of your life, it’s high time to reassess your priorities. It may be hard… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“In his campaign for the presidency, Reagan mastered the "excision of the language of race from conservative public discourse"… For example, when Reagan kicked… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in neat and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind-- complete with… — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
“Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
I judged entertainers who worked county fairs at age 55 because they had to. Now I get it. — Sinbad Copy Share Image
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
I actually did my first tour at the age of 10 with my dad, and it was as a country singer. We toured through… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
