William Overgard Quotes

If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

William Overgard

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• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• 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

• 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

• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • Difficult
  • Marine

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

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Horse
  • Uncomfortable
  • Both

• 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

• If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

  

  Marty Allen
  • Money
  • Path
  • Horse

• I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

  

  Loretta Reynolds
  • She
  • Job
  • Marine

• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • School
  • Community
  • City

• Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Marine

• 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

• As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Water
  • Boy
  • Ocean

• You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Up
  • Horse

• He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Simple

• Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

  

  Miguel
  • Music
  • Black

• I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Beautiful
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

  

  William Overgard
  • Horse
  • Marine
  • Arrogant