Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Robert Bly

Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.

Rita Mae Brown

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Rita Mae Brown

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

Richard Madden

I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.

Richard Farnsworth

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Thomas Hood

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

Thomas Huxley

Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

Rumi

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Rumi

The spirit is so near that you can't see it! But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

Tom Robbins

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Tom Ford

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

Toby Keith

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

Toby Keith

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

Susanna Clarke

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

Suzanne Collins

Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

Tarsem Singh

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.

Steven Pressfield

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Steven Pressfield

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Steven Morrissey

I still prefer horses to human beings.

Robert Browning

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

Robby Albarado

I wouldn't trade horses with anybody.

Ricky Schroder

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

Ricky Schroder

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

Ricky Schroder

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

Richard Nelson Bolles

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

Samuel Adams

And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.

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!