Quotes of: Horses Keyword

The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

Dust on the Mound

He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.

Gods of the Jungle Planet

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Half Broke Horses

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Half Broke Horses

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Half Broke Horses

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse.

Beware the Seventh Wave

The City is free of sin The snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that falls Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

Jane Smiley

The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene’s excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!

Imogene in New Orleans

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

Meet General Grant

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

Mostly Rapscallions: Salient Sillies about the Rich and Infamous in History

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

The Maker of Heavenly Trousers

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

The Titan's Curse

The best way to sell a car is to first try to sell them an airplane, then a horse, and then finally bring up the newest model automobile you have for sale.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Men touch their horses to calm them,” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

Unclaimed

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Winter's Tale

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 ...

Henry Selick

I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.

First Indian on the Moon

I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Paul O'Grady