Stagecoaches Quotes

• You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

  William Hazlitt

  College, Oxford, London

  'Table Talk' vol. 1 (1821) 'The Ignorance of the Learned'

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• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  1824 Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

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• The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Horse, Team

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

  Newt Gingrich

  Horse, Government, Lobbyists

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• There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

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• Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

  John Wayne

  Running, Men, Western Movie

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.56, Taylor Trade Publications

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• On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

  Anita Loos

  Memorable, People, Religion

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• Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

  Saul Alinsky

  Airports, Political, Politics

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• This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Politics

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Time, Towns, Faster

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller”, p.234

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• In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

  Richard Power

  Technology, People, Computer

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• Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

  Judd Nelson

  Firsts, Western

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.

  Judd Nelson

  Horse, Fun, Weather

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  Walker Percy

  Girl, Summer, Lonely

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.8, Open Road Media

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