David Merrick Quotes

There's a horse's ass for every light on Broadway.

David Merrick

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• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Know
  • Theater

• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Better
  • Horse
  • Genius

• I would love to do Broadway again.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Again
  • Broadway

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• 'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Strong

• 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 O'Brian
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Horse

• When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Horse
  • Living
  • Ride

• For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

  

  Xenophon
  • Done
  • Understanding
  • Beauty

• President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Energy
  • Horse
  • Riding

• If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Anything
  • Broadway

• A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Horse
  • Uncomfortable
  • Both

• The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Horse
  • Funeral

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• ....A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Done
  • Job
  • Horse

• I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Time
  • Work
  • Horse

• As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Real
  • Father
  • Girl

• Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • Success
  • Horse

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Horse
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!

  

  Estelle
  • Jobs
  • Broadway
  • TV Series

• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Business
  • Wall

• If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Think
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Why
  • Wife

• There's a horse's ass for every light on Broadway.

  

  David Merrick
  • Horse
  • Ass
  • Broadway