It isnt important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. Its the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts – Harry S Truman
So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. …What a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back. – William Shakespeare
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner
When people hold you in high esteem, its very delicate relationship. When they meet you theyre putting all their chips up. Its make or break. – Henry Rollins
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. – Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones