Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martina Hingis

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

Michio Kaku

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Patricia Schroeder

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

Madonna Ciccone

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

Madonna Ciccone

I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.

Lyman Abbott

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Lyle Lovett

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

Lyle Lovett

Home is where my horse is.

Lydia M. Child

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Michael Jackson

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

Michel de Montaigne

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

Michel de Montaigne

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Michel de Montaigne

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Michael Schumacher

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

Mark Twain

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Joseph Joubert

I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

Albert Schweitzer

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

People walk up and down there every day, two or three hundred people, and if that horse was out there 20 minutes, somebody would have called me.

But it was all tongue in cheek. That said more to me about the man than anything else. I had no idea and there had been no pressure on me before the race or the night before not to ride his horse to win.

Jeff Chapman

My horse worked really outstanding - that's what saved me. My horse was real strong and I just stayed out of everyone else's way.

My horse just got a little tired down the stretch.

Richard Hughes

I got a lovely rhythm from him which is the key to the horse and he really picked up at the crossing. Once I got that rail, I knew he wouldn't get beat.

Alex Solis

He toyed with those horses and did it so easy.

Steve Hamilton

He went a little wider than I wanted to go, but I had a lot of horse and he did the rest.

She went awesome. Her last three-eighths were in 34-and-three. We worked her with another horse, and then another horse inadvertently tied in at the three-eighths pole.

She's really flourishing. She's a young horse and has passed hurdle after hurdle. This is going to be a big challenge, even though it will be her backyard.

I had plenty of horse all the way in the race, a lot of confidence. I know what kind of horse he is. I don't want to use him early. I want to wait for the top of the stretch.

I can't see a speed horse getting away on his own.

Jerome K. Jerome

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

Jesse Owens

The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

Jennifer Lawrence

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Jeff Fahey

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.