Top 1200 Dark Horse Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My role in 'Kashmora' required me to take horse riding lessons.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.

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

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon as they get on a horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure, they would beat him to death, before they would make him read.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

When I got a call to see if I wanted a Derby horse, I said, 'Damn!'

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible. I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel. All that you love All that you hate All you distrust All you save. All that you give All that you deal All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal. All you create All you destroy All that you do All that you say. All that you eat And everyone you meet All that you slight And everyone you fight. All that is now All that is gone All that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

I'm a wild horse, to say the least, and with age, I haven't calmed down completely.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.

People expect star kids to be perfect - horse-riding, fighting.

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.

For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

I love working out. I also go horse-riding and golfing.

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

My dad is a gaucho. He wakes in the middle of the night and rides a horse for a living.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

I've always been a clothes horse, and I spend a lot of money on designers.

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

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

I had a little radio next to the bed and I'd just listen to the top 10 - I mean, it was crap but I was young - and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn't have a CD player... so it was kind of all I had, you know?

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.