Top 1200 Dark Horse Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.

Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

When I am not shooting, all my waking hours are dedicated to horse riding and gymming.

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

Better to constantly check in than ride proud on your high horse.

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

I like going down the pub with my mates and horse racing. I don't do anything that exciting.

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

Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

I thought it would be fun to make a cartoon about this sad, misanthropic horse.

All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.

If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

I'm not bragging, but my reputation among my peers was Bruno was a horse I never got tired.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.'