Famous Quotes & Sayings

Princess Anne

When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

Princess Anne

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.

To do our job, we have to take all the resources into account, not just the horses.

David Rosenberg

That's a horse with a track record that we would rather not go against.

These people (selling) have a lot of money invested in these horses, and it is what it is.

Kurt Russell

I liked that this is a generational Kentucky horse people story. This is what they do.

It was a 26 horse (power) originally. It's modified now and runs 100 horse.

It will take a special horse to win from there. It was always going to be difficult. Now it will be much more difficult.

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

They went to their horse and she made plays.

They want to come and ride a horse and spend the night. The Old West image is on a horse.

John Ensign

The time has come to put an end to the practice of slaughtering horses in America,

Trevor Hoffman

They're all tough. This is a different situation when your horse is out there and pitches his butt off. My job is to nail it down.

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.

Dakota Fanning

I never worked with horses before, so that was a new challenge, and working with Kurt was just amazing. I couldn't wait.

Michael Mann

I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.

Chris LeDoux

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

Jack Klugman

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

Jack Klugman

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

Jack LaLanne

Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.

J. D. Salinger

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

J. D. Salinger

Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.

J. D. Salinger

Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Ingrid Newkirk

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

Jack Kerouac

Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

Jack Gilbert

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.

Hannah Kent

I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for it. A red-headed boy, who gobbles his buttered bread and toddles to his horse with the seat of his pants wet, this is the young man they hope will get me on my knees, full of prayer. This is the young man I hope will be able to help me, although with what and how I cannot think.

Guy Ritchie

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

Gracie Allen

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.

Ginger McCain

They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?

Harold Hamm

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

He's still the horse to beat. At a mile and a sixteenth, he's still the horse to beat. If it sets up like it did the last time, we're probably all running for second again.