Backsides Quotes - Page 3

• I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.

  Iggy Pop

  Travel, Stars, Glasses

  Song: The Passenger

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• To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

  Bob Lewis

  Horse, Winning, Kentucky

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• A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mountain, Has Beens, Trusted

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• You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.

  Kate DeAraugo

  Pride, Mind, Looks

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• Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• “God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  "Nightwood".

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• The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Fighting, Mountain, Care

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• It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Mitch Albom (2007). “For One More Day”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

  Wilford Brimley

  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Thinking, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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