Graham Motion quote: "He's just learning to run. I was a little nervous when he was on the lead and a 50-1 shot (Take a Shot, who faded to last) was pressing him. He looks around a bit and needed to learn to relax. He's a very good horse."

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away ...
GRAHAM MOTION

I think that in the Breeders' Cup, there will be a legitimate pace. It's amazing to me how little re...
GRAHAM MOTION

It was really a team effort.
GRAHAM MOTION

I can't imagine dealing with anything worse. You're dealing with the loss of animals. It's not the b...
GRAHAM MOTION

This is why we're all in the game to run in races like this. These guys are sportsmen and this is re...
GRAHAM MOTION

I didn't want to get into the same situation again and I thought that was possible if I decided to k...
GRAHAM MOTION

This was the perfect prep. He does well with time between races. Knock on wood, we can keep him soun...
GRAHAM MOTION

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
ANDREW MOTION

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be movi...
ANDREW MOTION

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and...
ANDREW MOTION

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
ANDREW MOTION

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on t...
ANDREW MOTION

Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a p...
ANDREW MOTION

Actors may (or may not) read poems well, but poets have unique rights to their work, and unique insi...
ANDREW MOTION

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.
ANDREW MOTION

This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in ...
ANDREW MOTION

He was a man of immense charm, affability and kindness with no side to him.
ANDREW MOTION

It is extremely desolating news that he should have died when he was only 68 and always seemed so mu...
ANDREW MOTION

Each sudden gust of light explains itselfas flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on th...
ANDREW MOTION

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am email...
ANDREW MOTION

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to ...
ANDREW MOTION

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I hav...
ANDREW MOTION

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that ...
ANDREW MOTION

I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in...
ANDREW MOTION

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious co...
ANDREW MOTION

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But...
ANDREW MOTION

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem...
ANDREW MOTION

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back ...
ANDREW MOTION

Each sudden gust of light explains itself
as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled ...
ANDREW MOTION

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses'...
ANDREW MOTION

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wo...
ANDREW MOTION

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv...
ANDREW MOTION

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how ...
ANDREW MOTION

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
GRAHAM

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
KAT GRAHAM

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are thi...
GRAHAM HAWKES

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra...
GRAHAM BROWN

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE

The only sin is mediocrity.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and t...
KAT GRAHAM

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
KAT GRAHAM

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomor...
KAT GRAHAM

I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
KAT GRAHAM

I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
KAT GRAHAM

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been ...
KAT GRAHAM

I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
KAT GRAHAM

I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and...
KAT GRAHAM

I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summe...
KAT GRAHAM

I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these ...
KAT GRAHAM

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
KAT GRAHAM

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of wha...
KAT GRAHAM

I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
KAT GRAHAM

Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and e...
KAT GRAHAM

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at le...
KAT GRAHAM

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull...
KAT GRAHAM

I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
KAT GRAHAM

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
KAT GRAHAM

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
GRAHAM ELLIOT

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one...
GRAHAM SWIFT

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to ...
LAURIE GRAHAM

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's ...
KATHARINE GRAHAM

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they...
GRAHAM GREENE

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a brib...
GRAHAM GREENE

The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she...
GRAHAM WALLAS

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Adver...
KATHARINE GRAHAM

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM

I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave unt...
LAURIE GRAHAM

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a...
PAUL GRAHAM

When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. ...
GRAHAM PARKER

Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
JAMES GRAHAM

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious ...
GRAHAM NORTON

I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved...
GRAHAM YOST

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a...
LINDSEY GRAHAM

I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th...
HEATHER GRAHAM

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'
HEATHER GRAHAM

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
JAMES GRAHAM

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it need...
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg...
GRAHAM GREENE

This is a very scary trend. In the past, people could say, 'It's not in my neighborhood and I don't ...
AARON GRAHAM

This is a very scary trend.
AARON GRAHAM

The average suspect works by himself, is a male, is white, and is in his mid 20s.
AARON GRAHAM

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.
AARON GRAHAM

We make the decisions based on the best information available. No doubt, that information has gotten...
AARON GRAHAM

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date ...
LAUREN GRAHAM

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...
MARTHA GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a ...
GRAHAM HANCOCK

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sens...
GRAHAM BROWN

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
MARTHA GRAHAM

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
MARTHA GRAHAM

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...
MARTHA GRAHAM

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance is the hidden language of the soul
MARTHA GRAHAM

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your gener...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains...
GRAHAM GREENE

America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of...
MARTHA GRAHAM

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To ...
JAMES GRAHAM

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou...
GRAHAM GREENE

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
GRAHAM GREENE

I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively,...
GRAHAM SWIFT

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILAH GRAHAM

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing...
GORDON GRAHAM

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE

Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
KATHERINE GRAHAM

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just th...
HARRY GRAHAM

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE

When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE

If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM

Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
COLLIER GRAHAM

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE

There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE

Good people are always so sure they're right.
BARBARA GRAHAM

The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM

The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
KATHARINE GRAHAM

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM

He's just learning to run. I was a little nervous when he was on the lead and a 50-1 shot (Take a Shot, who faded to last) was pressing him. He looks around a bit and needed to learn to relax. He's a very good horse.

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He's just learning to run. I was a little nervous when he was on the lead and a 50-1 shot (Take a Shot, who faded to last) was pressing him. He looks around a bit and needed to learn to relax. He's a very good horse.

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