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.

Preston Sturges

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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

• 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

• You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Wall

• The toughest parts of the shooting schedule for me are the days between working, when you've nothing to do but wait. There is only so much time you can spend on a script before it becomes so rehearsed that your performance becomes rigid and immovable on the day of, so one has to occupy one's time in some fashion. For me, those interim days are usually spent exercising, exploring, learning to cook something edible, and working on my own creative endeavors.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Time
  • Performance
  • Script

• The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Black
  • Because
  • Course

• 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