Quotes of: Dead-horse Keyword

Enid: [picking up a swinging metal ornament of a cowboy on a horse] What is this? Seymour: Dana got it when we went shopping for antiques. She said it didn't go with her stuff, so she gave it to me. Said it would go better with my 'old-time thingamaj...

Ghost World

[last lines] Marcus Brody: Indy, Henry, follow me. I know the way. Ha! [Marcus' horse rides off with him barely hanging onto it] Professor Henry Jones: Got lost in his own museum, eh? Indiana Jones: Uh-huh. Professor Henry Jones: After you, Junior. I...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Malcolm X: [narrating] I was special. The only colored kid in the class. I became sort of a mascot. Like a pink poodle. I was called a nigger so many times, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. I thought that was my name. They talked abou...

Malcolm X

[In the middle of a desert. Clark is going crazy as he trots through the hills. Two native Americans on horses watch him] Clark: We pass a damn gas station every hundred yards for a thousand miles, but when you really need one, you end up walking you...

National Lampoon's Vacation

[the Comanchero leader has stopped his men from raping Laura Lee] Comanchero Leader: You damn fools! Ten Bears gonna want him a fresh woman. Fresh, that little gal will bring ten, maybe twelve horses. Now, if one of you has to, you can take that old ...

The Outlaw Josey Wales

everyone: [singing] Thank God we live in this quiet, little, pissant, redneck, podunk, jerkwater, greenhorn, one-horse, mudhole, peckerwood, right-wing, whistle-stop, hobnail, truck-driving, old-fashioned, hayeseed, inbred, unkempt, out-of-date, whit...

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

[Mattie prepares to go back to the Monarch Boarding House; Rooster is too drunk to escort her] Mattie Ross: I'll walk over there by myself. Rooster Cogburn: You scared of the dark? Mattie Ross: I've never been scared of the dark. Rooster Cogburn: Wel...

True Grit

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie...

Miguel Syjuco

Dilios: It's been more than thirty years since the wolf and the winter cold. And now, as then, a beast approaches; patient and confident, savoring the meal to come. This beast is made of men and horses, swords and spears. An army of slaves vast beyon...

300

Doc: And in the future, we don't need horses. We have motorized carriages called automobiles. Saloon Old Timer #3: If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody walk or run anymore? Doc: Of course we run. But for recreation. For fun. Sa...

Back to the Future Part III

Buck Laughlin: [as the hound judge examines a Borzoi] Now that looks like a fast dog. Is that faster than a greyhound? Trevor Beckwith: Uhh... I can't really say... Buck Laughlin: If you put them in a race, who would come in first? You know if you ha...

Best in Show

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or ...

Anton Chekhov

His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was just a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But his discourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it went away neither disgusted by servility, nor repelled by ill-...

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman all the insults that have ever been the lot of her sex. Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; de...

Virginia Woolf

The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

A Clash of Kings

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

The Corpse-Rat King

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

Concrete

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The Collected Poems

If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.

Corcitura

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Catch-22

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

Dead Aim