Stalking Quotes - Page 9

• International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Quirky, International Business, Locals

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.308, Anchor

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• I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Country, Home

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• Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!

  Francois Arago

  Nature, Spring, Cutting

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264

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• Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Home, Fire, Rose

  Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.173, Modern Library

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Innovation, Age

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• The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Ice, Sky

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.319, Vintage

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• Along the river's summer walk,
  The withered tufts of asters nod;
  And trembles on its arid stalk
  the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Journey, July

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.208

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• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Art, Moving, Sight

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• If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has
  already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can
  become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes
  you cannot now imagine.

  Martha Beck

  Teacher, Mind, Monsters

  "How to fail your way to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2008.

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• The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

  Christopher Bollen

  Valentine, Towns, Coal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Sick, Lame

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.

  Virgil

  War, Dark, Agriculture

  Virgil (1830). “Virgil”, p.79

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• The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Science, Two, Bud

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• I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Attention, May

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2005.

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• In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Prayer, Night, Roots

  Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Horse, Views, Drug

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• The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

  John Keats

  Dew, Poppies, Hung

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.24

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• Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Long, Solemn

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1847). “Works”, p.145

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• Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Gay, Blow

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.419

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• Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

  Willard Fiske

  Moving, Goal, Design

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• Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

  Bayard Taylor

  Rain, Sap, Earth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.243

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  William O. Douglas

  Teacher, Jobs, Fear

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• When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Loneliness, World, Orderliness

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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