Dick Francis
Dick Francis
Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE FRSLwas a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer, whose novels centre on horse racing in England...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHorse Jockey
Date of Birth31 October 1920
people dont-trust-anyone cant-trust-anyone
People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.
good-man manners good-manners
Good manners are a sign of strength.
powerful science thinking
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
politics rotten emotion
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
ideas swim mind
Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.
children people layers
THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.
risk mind window
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.
hurt feelings comfort
Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time
football fate people
Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.
dream made discarded
But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.
heart jockeys fence
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
being-weird weirdness achieve
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
eye thinking views
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.
actively anarchy average calls groups income needs police regulation saved slob until
In all income groups you find your average regulation slob who sniggers at anarchy but calls the police indignantly to his burglarized home, who is actively anti-authority until he needs to be saved from someone with a gun.