Top 1200 Horse And Carriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745

I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.

I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden... with sword in my hand.

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

the horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.

I'd be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I've done horse jumping... so clearly I'm not very picky.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

I emptied the trash and wiped down tables. But my job that I remember the most was picking up horse manure for the Electrical Parade.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

I never had even been on a horse and I thought guns were for the police until 'Bonanza' came along.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

When you give someone a commitment to ride their horse, you do it - unless, God forbid, something serious has happened. It would be laziness not to do it.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

I had learnt horse riding while shooting for a Bengali film earlier and was trained in sword fighting on the set of 'Manikarnika'.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I've done a lot of therapy and it's great to be back on the horse.

The action of 'Horse Soldiers' is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare - but with a lot of moxie.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

When a horse is feeling good, you can sense that, a lot like the tension a fisherman feels on his line when he hooks something.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.

Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak

The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.

One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.

You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.