My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.
If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
One morning, as he sat at his desk, he heard the sound of a horse's hooves on the path outside his house. He stepped out on to the verandah. There, on a tall grey horse, sat Morgane. 'I've come to have my picture painted,' she said. She took off her ...
Do stones feel? Do they love their life? Or does their patience drown out everything else? When I walk on the beach I gather a few white ones, dark ones, the multiple colors. Don’t worry, I say, I’ll bring you back, and I do. Is the tree as it ri...
No matter what the world claims, its wisdom always growing, so it’s said, some things don’t alter with time: the first kiss is a good example, and the flighty sweetness of rhyme. No matter what the world preaches spring unfolds in its appointed t...
I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have you...
[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?" [Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I th...
A Rough Guide Be polite at the reception desk. Not all the knives are in the museum. The waitresses know that a nice boy is formed in the same way as a deckchair. Pay for the beer and send flowers. Introduce yourself as Richard. Do not refer to what ...
The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he had some money on the horses, and if he won, he would buy his own taxicab, and really do well. I felt very sorry. I told him that betting o...
God (Nature, in my view) makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He fores one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place, and natural conditions. He mutila...
I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.
I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it?
