Horse Quotes

• I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • School
  • Hands
  • Fields

• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Mind

• O for a horse with wings!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Horse
  • Wings

• Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Running
  • Sleep
  • Battle

• Most people don't realize how little it takes to get a horse to move.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Horse

• You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Life
  • Things
  • Deal

• I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.

  

  William McNamara
  • Children
  • Strong
  • Dog

• My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

  

  Reggie Bush
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Focus

• Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • People
  • Horse
  • Comfort

• You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • Horse

• A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.

  

  Danny Fox
  • Writing
  • Setting
  • Easel

• I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Moving
  • Horse
  • Type

• I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Actors
  • Horse
  • Directors

• Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Everyday

• One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • World
  • Wish
  • Decision

• A good horse is the best company in the world.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • World
  • Horse
  • Company

• I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

  

  William Shatner
  • Love
  • Dog
  • Pleasure

• If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

  

  Debra Doyle
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Fiction

• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Actors

• It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.

  

  Cassidy Erin Gifford
  • Horse
  • Curse

• Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Car

• We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Men
  • Black
  • Waiting

• I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.

  

  Mike White
  • Running
  • Directors
  • Producers

• It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Health
  • Horse

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