Horse Quotes - Page 20

• Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Fear, Anger

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Men, Luxury

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  Patrick Stewart

  Character, Romance, Riding

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• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Bram Stoker

  Light, Sky, Broken

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.23, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

  James Surowiecki

  Race, Track, Office

  "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

  Janine Turner

  Hiking, Woods, Appraise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.

  Christopher Walken

  Running, Moving, Lasts

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mirrors, Dependent, Who You Are

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• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Awakening

  Simone Weil (2009). “Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)”, p.124, Routledge

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• I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

  Bradley Whitford

  Home, Thinking, Race

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  Olivia Wilde

  Fall, Quitter, Get Back

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Easter, Cousin, Uncles

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  Neil Young

  Crazy, Surfing, Sound

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• That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

  Charles Jencks

  Talking, Culture, Looks

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• I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  Missing, Towers, Fool

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• The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Long, Community

  "Look Who's Talking". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

  Lewis Black

  College, Thinking, Blood

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• Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Faith, Children, Believe

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• The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

  William Goldman

  Queens, Rain, Love You

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.50, A&C Black

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• A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mad, Riders, Cavalry

  Steven Pressfield (2004). “The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great”, Broadway Books

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• Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fall, Sides, Sideways

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Pigs, Mind

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• She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Moving, Sight

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• A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stars, Men, Space

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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