Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

Oscar Wilde

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Patrick O'Brian

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Patrick O'Brian

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

Patrick Rothfuss

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Patrick Rothfuss

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

Lester Piggott

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Lester Piggott

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

Lester Piggott

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

Lea Thompson

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

Lea Michele

I love horses so much. Horses are my life.

Lauren Oliver

I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

Larry the Cable Guy

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

P. J. O'Rourke

[We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

P. J. O'Rourke

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Paul Mellon

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

Paul Merton

Have you ever had sex with a horse?

Kay Redfield Jamison

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

Olivia Wilde

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

Oliver Goldsmith

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Margaret Deland

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

David Rosenberg

That's a horse with a track record that we would rather not go against.

Mel Gibson

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

Mary Pope Osborne

Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

Martin Clunes

My horses make very silly faces when I'm preparing their meals.

Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Pete Townshend

The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Paulo Coelho

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Peter Lynch

Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

R. A. Salvatore

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!