Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Manganiello

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

Joe E. Lewis

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

Jim Knight

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

Emilia Clarke

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

John McPhee

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

John Heywood

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

John Heywood

A short horse is soone currid.

John Heywood

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

John Heywood

While the grass groweth the horse starveth.

John Heywood

The grey mare is the better horse.

John Heywood

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

John Hay

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

David Rosenberg

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Benjamin Disraeli

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Benjamin Disraeli

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Edgar Allan Poe

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

Elbert Hubbard

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Every 10 years the management levels change. In 1960, the management levels were at 60,000 horses and burros. In the mid-1980s, they pushed to get it down to 36,000. Now, 15 to 20 years later, it's 23,000 to 29,000. What that will do is put these horses in jeopardy.

Rocco Landesman

Producing is a terrible business. The rewards are lousy. Only 15-20 percent of shows recoup their investment, just as 15-20 percent of horses pay for their oats.

Probably 60 percent of the show is about and showcases the horses.

This does not mean the Preakness is gone. This does not mean horse racing is gone,

They were hitting, but it was like they were playing horse out there.

They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream.

They don't have any room. There's no place to put these horses.

There were 100 horses in the parade from the Davidson Works alone. About 25,000 people saw the parade which lasted from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Georgette Heyer

Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

Horace

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

Herbert V. Prochnow

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

Herman Melville

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Herman Melville

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Henry David Thoreau

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.