Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.

Avi Arad

The scripts that are ready will go first. It's kind of a horse race. We will make the movies by the quality of the script and which is ready to go first.

I've waited a lifetime for a horse like this. I'm going to let him take me to places that I've never been.

Victor Espinoza

It was a perfect trip. He just stalked the leader and kept running at the end. My horse is really nice to ride and he knows what's going on. So I don't have to do too much.

Michelle Paver

I sometimes wonder why I do so much research - I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible.

I've been riding for 25 years, and I've never been involved with a horse who's won this many in a row. She's just unbelievable.

Jerry Thomas

I used to work with horses myself back in the old days. And I must say he has some very well-trained horses.

I've never had a horse work that good. This is probably the most talented horse I've ever had.

We will suspend an ante-post market on receiving reliable information that a horse is dead.

The stable wears out a horse more than the road

Sprague Grayden

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

Jerry Bailey

I've always thought that one horse wouldn't make up my mind one way or the other,

Richard Whately

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

Russell Hoban

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

Russell Crowe

I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.

Romola Garai

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Rick Riordan

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Rick Riordan

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran.

Rick Riordan

Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends." The horse nickered. "Uh, maybe later," Percy answered. Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action. "What does Blackjack want?" she asked. "Donuts," Percy said. "Always donuts.

Rick Riordan

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

Richard Curtis

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

Rick Riordan

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Otis Redding

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

P. C. Cast

I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.

Mel Gibson

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

Mary Pope Osborne

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

Martin Clunes

My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Pete Townshend

The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Paulo Coelho

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Peter Lynch

Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

R. A. Salvatore

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!