Young Thoroughbred Player

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

    that Sunday in July
    when we were young and did not look
    into the abyss,
    that God spot.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    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)