Preston Sturges Quotes

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

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• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Sea
  • Horse
  • Inside

• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Better
  • Horse
  • Genius

• With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • Horse
  • Rise

• I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Horse
  • White
  • Houses

• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Career
  • Day
  • Broken

• Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Horse

• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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

• I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dad

• '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

• You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • You
  • Angry
  • Horse

• My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Good
  • Father
  • Pretty

• 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

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

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Horse
  • Uncomfortable
  • Both

• Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

  

  Roy Keane
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Player

• There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Choose
  • Constitution
  • Cast

• If the human isn’t responsible for their role in the horse human relationship, horses just don’t get along very well. So that’s why I say it’s all about the human meeting the bill to fit the horse in any given situation. But don’t expect the horse to always fit the human.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Human
  • Role
  • Horses

• I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Horse