Quotes of: Roller-coaster-ride Keyword

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

My mother showed her gratitude for her life in exile by alluding to India’s modernity: the expansive railway network; the Bollywood movies she came to love for their tumultuous stories which ultimately conceded to the cardinal guidelines she held i...

A Home in Tibet

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, y...

The Waves

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

Chip Chip Chaw!

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

Chasing Trouble

History boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes history that isn’t boring.

Duplex

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

Dark Ride

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Dark Ride

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

Dark Ride

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

Full Ride

Anger had arrived and it was riding a big furious don't-fuck-with-me horse.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.

Christopher Lee

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

Will Self

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex D. Linz

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Jane Smiley

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Robert Webb

The way is open, ride the wave of success again today. You can't lose.

The Art of Manifesting Abundance

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

Along for the Ride

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Along for the Ride