#key

But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to the jockey's craft... Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relative weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the tack together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. The horse partook of the jockey's cunning; the jockey partook of the horse's supreme power. For the jockey, the saddle was a place of unparalled exhilaration, of transcendence. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#racehorse #experience

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#display #ground #monkey #poor #quietly

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#the-key-to-the-golden-firebird #funny

An ice sculpture in the Sahara makes about as much sense as donkey left open gaping wagon, Sergeant (add cream cheese sparingly).
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— Jarod Kintz

#cream-cheese #donkey #ice-sculpture #nonsensical #open

I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here. ↗

— Melissa St. Hilaire

#fitting-in #funny #monkey #funny

I always tried to imagine what it will be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. Maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#imagination

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs. ↗

— Alton Brown

#create #does #dry #fact #focus

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#happiness #key #key to success #love #success

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humour #inspirational #monkey #moon #visionary

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#commitment #desire #determination #enable #excellence