I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.
I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That’s where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of.
I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it’s very easy to digest.
When you’re an athlete, you’ve got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you’re doing. I wasn’t a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what’s really happening to people’s lives.
The quarter horse game is more laid back. I think those guys are more friendly.
You might have a great fence, a great shoot, run, and swim, but you might get a dodgy horse. Each country supplies the horse; you get 20 minutes to warm up with it, and then you have to do the jumping course. Pentathlon’s difficult because everything has to come together.
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I’d pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
When I’m not working, I don’t mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I’m more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.
Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
It’s my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
I thought it would be fun to make a cartoon about this sad, misanthropic horse.
My role in ‘Kashmora’ required me to take horse riding lessons.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
I can gallop, I can trot, I can move sideways and turn around. I can do everything I need to do on a horse.
You can’t do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they’re leading you, not the other way round. You don’t want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don’t want them starting before you are ready.
For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn’t matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.
We all contribute to The National, and it’s like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian’s like the dark horse uncle, Scott’s the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn’t fire one gun and never gets on a horse?
I’ve spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren’t you?
If a horse doesn’t want to do something, you’re not going to make him do it. They’re incredibly powerful animals.
I wanted to be a stuntman. I’ve done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I’ve had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.
I get butterflies before going out to ride every day, but they disappear as soon as I am on a horse, and I think that is the same for most jockeys. Then it is just down to you and the horse, and there is a certain freedom in that.
Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it’s pretty spectacular.
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.
Although I’m not an orphan and I can’t lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.
Jindal’s record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I’d never ridden… with sword in my hand.
Yes, I’ve just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
I’m not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns – I love them.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Jockeys – it’s so difficult It’s completely insane. You’re balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it’s like you’re piloting a missile It’s amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time at the track and around the horses and around the people that are there, I realized the saddest thing that can happen is if anything happens to a horse.
I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I’ve had a concussion, a fractured rib… I walk into walls. I’m always bruised up.
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
The thing with gymnastics is people don’t always know the events. So they’ll ask me about the rings, and I’ll have to say, ‘Women don’t do that.’ Or they’ll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time – you’re like a racing horse: you’ve just got to be on. You’ve got to pull it together.
It’s very hard to do that many things at the same time – having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can’t ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.
If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
It’s not all about strength, there is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you, it’s being patient and I’m so glad to win Melbourne Cup and hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go.
I’ve always been that way where, if something doesn’t work out the first time, I won’t try to beat a dead horse.
It felt so good and natural, I should have been on a horse my entire life. I fell in love with riding.
I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There’s fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.
We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the ‘New York Times’ one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
I’m a work horse.
Art Collector, I think he’s a very good horse.
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing ’em.
The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal.
