Corral Quotes

Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones. (Theodore Roethke)

Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...

Brian Aldiss

I know all the songs that the cowboys know 'bout the big corral where the doggies go, 'Cause I learned them all on the radio. Yippie yi yo kayah.

Johnny Mercer

The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.

Willa Cather

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Sandra Bullock

He could leap the corral, If he rose To his full height; He could splinter the fencing light, With three blows Of his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose. He could shatter his prison wall, Could escape them all - If he rose, If he chose.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Actors are cattle. I've always said actors are cattle. In fact, Carole Lombard once built a corral on set and put three live calves into it, in recognition of my feelings. I tell them that, and treat them as such, and we get along fineǃ.

Alfred Hitchcock

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

Emma Donoghue

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

Susan Downey

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Will C. Barnes

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog. (Sitting Bull)

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

Warren Buffett

Grip eloquence by the throat and squeeze It to death. And while you're about it You might corral that runaway, Rhyme, Or you'll get Rhyme Without End, Amen. Who will denounce that criminal, Rhyme? Tone-deaf children or crazed foreigners No doubt fashioned its paste jewellery, Tinplate on top, hollow underneath.

Paul Verlaine