Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.
Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord’s and you know you’re going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade.
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Laos is considered by many as the dark horse of Southeast Asian cuisine, a culmination of the rich food heritage of neighbouring countries China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
I’m kind of like a horse: I just kind of eat throughout the day, so I’m not ever hungry.
You get sentimental on the road. I’d see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it’s just till election day. It’s an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we’ve got a pretty good country – until next election.
Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I’m actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.
While researching ‘Horse Soldiers,’ I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied key sites that appear in the book. I was able to capture not only the Americans’ point of view but the Afghans’ as well.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
I once got my stiletto caught in my horse’s tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.
One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples’ lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?
I can gauge how a horse is feeling.
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing – run in races and try to win.
For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn’t happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Being on a horse is one of my most natural places to be.
I really like ‘Roar’ and ‘Dark Horse.’ ‘Dark Horse’ I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry’s amazing!
As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.
People think I’m strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I’m going to live in the country with my horse and I’ll get a nine-to-five; I don’t need this.
If there’s a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it’s about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.
It’s horse racing. If you can’t beat him one way, try to win another way.
The action of ‘Horse Soldiers’ is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare – but with a lot of moxie.
I have never been to Ladies’ Day at the Grand National. I’ve never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can’t see that changing.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.
I’m like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
I’ve always wanted to run my horse farm.
Public interest is a very unruly horse.
I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
You try to do the best with what you’ve got and ignore everything else. That’s why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Great trainers and great jockeys keep a horse from getting beat.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Ingydar was the name of my great-aunt Becky’s horse, who passed away when I was a kid.
Me and my friends used to joke about the fact that you don’t see a Black man on a horse.
I remember I was a dark horse at Miss Universe. No one saw Miss India coming from a mile and suddenly there she was!
I’ve always been a clothes horse, and I spend a lot of money on designers.
I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic – a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I’m still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?
In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.
Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
It’s been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.
Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can’t no more’ basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it’s with you.
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman’s cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
I grew up on a farm – I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.
When United wanted me, I was like a horse with blinkers on. I was not interested in anyone else. City offered more money, but the team was weaker, and their history couldn’t compete with United.
In my first year or so at the ‘Post,’ I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues – so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: ‘On Being a Horse,’ ‘Brains and Beauty,’ ‘Mixed Drinks,’ ‘Lou Gehrig,’ and ‘Spotted Fever.’
So often at home in the West Village, I’m like, ‘Why aren’t I allowed a horse?’ I would keep a horse in a stable in my apartment, and I would fit him with rubber shoes, and we’d just roll him out. If I needed to go to a meeting somewhere, I’d just get on my horse and go across town.
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
One of the reasons I wrote ‘Horse Soldiers’ was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001.
I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn’t feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.
You’ve got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.
