Alexander the Great Quotes

What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! … I could manage this horse better than others do.

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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

• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Character
  • 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

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• 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

• 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

• As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sports

• 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

• Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Love
  • Why
  • Best

• 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

• All horses are different - sometimes they have a long neck - so you don't ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you're aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.

  

  Kerry Condon
  • Different
  • Long
  • Horse

• The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

  

  William Cowper
  • Horse
  • Leader
  • Slave

• No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.

  

  Mark Parker
  • People
  • World
  • Energy

• 'I'm in the Lord's hands,' he said humbly. 'I'm but a penny whistle for His breath to blow on.' This he said with such solemnity that the meaning of a fanatic was suddenly revealed to me. One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.

  

  John Buchan
  • Imagination
  • Blow
  • Fierce

• What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! … I could manage this horse better than others do.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Horse