"The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me."
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"As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."
"I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself."
"A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook."
"In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull."
"I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure."
"An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him."
"In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness."
"For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially."
"Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers."
"Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten."
"I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bulls**t anyday"
"His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line."
"In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]"
"I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa."
"There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized."
"Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull."
"...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them."
"The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!"