Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Charles Caleb Colton

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Charles Caleb Colton

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Charles Dickens

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Alan Arkin

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Al Jardine

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

Chris Cooper

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

Chris Cleave

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

Chris Abani

The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

Alan Watts

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Rig Veda

The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by undoing .. one who generates fire between two rocks, victor in battles, he, O people, is Indra.

Diana Vreeland

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

James E. Faust

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

Robert Gottlieb

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Mel Gussow

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.

Joe Cheshire

Now, whether there are other issues as to it relates to issues like drinking and partying and those things, I've got no clue. But if it relates to sexual assault, they can search 'til the cows come home.

Dan Edwards

I enjoy what I do very much, ... When I was a kid I helped my Dad with the cows on our farm. He was a school teacher, too. When I left home, for some reason he sold the cows we had always kept.

Cilla Black

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

David Williams

But, it was simple, painless and when it was over with I couldn't tell what was done. It was just that mask, that steel harness they put over your head.

Ravi Chandra

Now we'll see if we can harness some of the cells' power by incorporating them into a device.

Alexa Vega

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.

Megan Charpentier

I think I'd like to play more happy roles because I haven't done too many of those. I think I'd like to do an action film; something with a harness would be fun.

Stephen Straus

Their wishful thinking that they're going to get better is harnessing the body's own mechanism for relieving pain.

Victoria Pratt

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.