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You`re better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn`t wanna wander from the stable at night.

- Betty Grable

I like to play the line and not wander too far to either side. If a guy has just had a bad day in the mines and wants to see a good shoot `em up, that`s great.

- Clint Eastwood

I imagine like most of us that I`d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. I can go on the tube and bus and wander through the streets. So I`m quite happy not to get the girl.

- Jason Isaacs

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I`ll buy whatever catches my attention.

- Bruce Springsteen

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

- Camille Paglia

I`m deeply fixated on my childhood. Some impressions are extremely vivid, light, smell, and all. There are moments when I can wander through my childhood`s landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It`s like a film-little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail-except their smell.

- Ingmar Bergman

I don`t read music. I don`t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

- James Taylor

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?

- James Welch

I couldn`t go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don`t ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

- Christine McVie

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

I wander around and my wife and I are very close, we go out and go to places we discover, we love to eat and drinking doesn`t hurt.

- Robert Stack

Because we are a document depository, the building is necessarily an open place. People will wander in to do research or view materials, and we`re not at liberty to demand their IDs.

- Linda Hunt

The gallery was thinking about some of the advantages of interactivity and also about giving the public open access to the collection. That would increase their sense of connection to the museum, encourage them to wander and make them feel like they had a leg up on the other visitors.

- Barbara Moore

I like to go to the record store. Every time I do, I wander up and down the aisles and nine times out of 10, I don`t buy anything.

- Paul Westerberg

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one`s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

- Georges Bataille

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

- Donald E. Westlake

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn`t have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

- Mark Foster

Today`s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

- Nikola Tesla

I don`t really have studios. I wander around around people`s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

- Akiko Morigami

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

- Alex Tourk

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Alexandre Barros

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Alexandre Barros

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

- Alfred Balauro

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

- Alisha Valenzuela

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

- Alyssa Fressle

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

- Andrew Baum

When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

- Anita Borg

We hope the public enjoys themselves, come out and wander around.

- Ari Bensinger

I definitely let my mind wander and think, because that`s what I want to build. That`s my vision and I`m working hard to achieve it.

- Arnold Aronson

I learned that everybody at this level can compete, so it`s all about who can stay focused the longest. So I never let my mind wander.

- Ashley Boehnel

Men in flat caps and collarless shirts wander around with a sprig of hawthorn between their teeth, their hands clamped behind them. All you have to do is say "Ah," mingling pity, rage and stoicism in one breath, and everyone within earshot will echo you.

- Austin Knowlin

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

- Freya Stark

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc