Quote by Mark Helprin Download Open image ““A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.”” — Mark Helprin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty,… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
“It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At two meetings the stimulated horses that I was backing outraced the unstimulated or insufficiently stimulated beasts except for one race in which our fancy had been overstimulated to such a point that before the start he threw his jockey and breaking away completed a full circuit of the steeplechase course jumping beautifully by himself the way one can sometimes… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share
“The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama. You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing… — Deanie Humphrys-Dunne Copy Share Image
“#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Horse racing is not so much a business as it is a calling. The work requires too much time and energy to pursue it… — Joe Layden Copy Share Image
“From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to the jockey's craft... Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relative weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share
“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
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music;… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
