Young Thoroughbred Player

Famous quotes containing the words young, thoroughbred and/or player:

    “The angels were all singing out of tune,
    And hoarse with having little else to do,
    Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
    Or curb a runaway young star or two.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “It is a fundamental characteristic of civilization that man most profoundly mistrusts those living outside his own milieu, so that not only does the Teuton regard the Jew as an incomprehensible and inferior being, but the football player likewise so regards the piano player.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)