Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lipton

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

James Lipton

I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

Joe E. Lewis

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

Jim Knight

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

Emilia Clarke

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

John McPhee

A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

John Heywood

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

John Heywood

A short horse is soone currid.

John Heywood

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

John Heywood

While the grass groweth the horse starveth.

John Heywood

The grey mare is the better horse.

John Heywood

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

John Hay

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

John F. Kerry

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

John Dunning

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

John Millington Synge

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

John Betjeman

Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.

John B. S. Haldane

Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

John B. S. Haldane

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

Joel McCrea

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

Joel Edgerton

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

Joan Rivers

If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.

Frankie Dettori

Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

George Cukor

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

Gayle Forman

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Gary Cooper

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

Gary Cooper

It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.

Gary Cooper

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

Livy

Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Louise Penny

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

Louis Aragon

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.