Greyhound Quotes

“The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.”

“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”

“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?”

“When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next ‘Get it!”

“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.”

“inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by.a gateway to freedom.the american dream.from "the american dream”

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a lazy student). I would ride the Greyhound for thirty-six hours down from the Midwest to Leechfield, then spend days dressed in black in the scalding heat of my mother’s front porch reading Homer (or Ovid or Virgil) and waiting for someone to ask me what I was reading. No one ever did. People asked me what I was drinking, how much I weighed, where I was living, and if I had married yet, but no one gave me a chance to deliver my lecture on Great Literature.”

“Do ghosts drink tea?They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely.”

“Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!”