Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very...
I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during ...
Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays, he smokes one cigarette (but claims he’s not a ...
Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a str...
Man, a gigantic child, must play with Babylon and Nineveh, with Isis and with Ashtaroth. By all means let him dream of the Bondage of Egypt, so long as he is free from it. By all means let him take up the Burden of Tyre, so long as he can take it lig...
There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted ...
[first lines] Narrator: At exactly 3:45 on that Saturday afternoon in the last week of September, Marvin Unger was, perhaps, the only one among the hundred thousand people at the track who felt no thrill at the running of the fifth race. He was total...
Old Lodge Skins: Am I still in this world? Jack Crabb: Yes Grandfather. Old Lodge Skins: Heeya... I was afraid of that. Well sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't. Let's go back to the tepee and eat my son. My newest snake wife cooks dog...
The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family
Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan
If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. - Emmett Cullen
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Marie Caroline Jensen, will you do me the honor of being my permanent bitch? -HORSE
If Scotsmen don't wear anything under their kilts and they ride a horse, do you think they chafe their manbits?
If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride.
How do you file a restraining order against sadness?
I pet horses and ride cats, because I’m a cowman. I’m too mature to be a cowboy.
