Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. My career has been given to me by the people I've worked with. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

First, I just walk my horse around the arena.

We've got to get back on this horse.

Deborah Mailman

If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

Casper Dien

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

Dick Van Patten

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

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

There is a lot of money to be had in the trade. Per kilogram, sea horses retail for more than the price of silver.

There is a lot of money to be had in the trade, ... Per kilogram, sea horses retail for more than the price of silver.

Stephen Jay Gould

Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.

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.

Carl Sandburg

Why is there always a secret singing when a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker hauling a lawyer away?

Billy Graham

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

With a Giant's Causeway, it makes you feel good. We don't want to reinforce the speed. He trains like a horse that wants to go farther. There are a lot of opportunities for horses when they develop.

Glenn Ford

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.

Mark Cuban

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

Christian McKay

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Blake Shelton

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

We have the impression that a legendary horseman is leaving on his horse for another world.

David Attenborough

You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems.

We needed the other horse to stop a little bit, and he never did.

Joe Torre

We need him to be a horse for us.

William Shakespeare

Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

William Shakespeare

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

William Shakespeare

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

William Shakespeare

I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.

William Shakespeare

You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

William Shakespeare

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.