Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elia Kazan

There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.

Elia Kazan

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

B. C. Forbes

A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

Arthur Honegger

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Bear Bryant

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

Barbara Ehrenreich

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ashley Rickards

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

Benjamin Graham

The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.

Bruce Sterling

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.

She can lay back and just turn it on when you need her to. She's got that quick turn of foot. She showed that when she won the Acorn. She had to wait, and she got outside of horses late and just kicked it in to get there.

Jerry Nelson

She loved her horses. And one of the things she would always say was about what she liked about her job.

We have a potential of 200 horses going to a tribe, and they could get $20,000 to keep them on their land.

Bruce Boxleitner

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

Bruce Boxleitner

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

Bruce Catton

Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

Brandon Sanderson

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

Arthur Conan Doyle

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

Archibald MacLeish

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Barbara Sher

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Augustus Hare

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Art Buchwald

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

Aziz Ansari

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Jennifer Brown

We treat the $500,000 racehorse the same as the $500 horse that comes through the door. It's all the same for us.

Jerry Only

We're about an hour out of Manhattan up in northern NJ. We've got a ski slope in our town and horse riding and all that kind of stuff.

Charles Bukowski

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Charles Bukowski

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

Charles Bukowski

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

Charles Bukowski

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.

Edward Abbey

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

Edward Abbey

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.