Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

Douglas Horton

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Andre Breton

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

Ann Romney

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

Anais Nin

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.

Chuck Klosterman

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.

Christopher Poole

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

Anita Loos

I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

Ambrose Bierce

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Ambrose Bierce

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

Ambrose Bierce

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

Ambrose Bierce

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Ambrose Bierce

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Anthony Horowitz

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

Alicia Keys

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

Alice Walton

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

Alice Munro

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

Alice Englert

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

Anne McCaffrey

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Alexa Chung

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

E. M. Forster

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

Dorothy Malone

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Donald Trump

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

Donald Trump

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

Donald Trump

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

Duke of Wellington

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Dougray Scott

I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

Dolly Parton

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Derek Walcott

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

David Mamet

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

Darrell Royal

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.

Clay Walker

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.