Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

• Horse
• Immortality
• Mortality
• Rider

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Secretariat horse character reveals his true identity, and it happens to be Bob Newhart.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Character
  • True
  • Identity

• We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Wish
  • Dog
  • Horse

• With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Growing
  • Crazy
  • Horse

• The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Basketball

• 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

• I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • Stop
  • Horse

• Whether I'm riding a horse or driving a car, I'm feeling them, judging what they're doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Horse
  • Sexy
  • Paradise

• I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Life
  • Art
  • Dog

• It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Feeling
  • Horse

• I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Work
  • God
  • Girl

• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• My mantra is 'healthy body, healthy mind.'

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Mind

• How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Horse
  • Immortality
  • Mortality