Horse Quotes

"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

John Sayles, Director

"Black beauty - he's a dark horse"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer"

Xenophon, Soldier

"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer"

Black Elk, Leader

"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished"

Black Elk, Leader

"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love"

William Shatner, Actor

"After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked"

Black Elk, Leader

"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"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"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"A husband is very much like a house or a horse"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined"

Jon Porter, Politician

"The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse"

Julie Benz, Actress

"But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses"

Julie Benz, Actress

"In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time"

Lita Ford, Musician

"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"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive"

John Moody, Businessman

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"I've always ridden horses"

Katie Price, Model

"He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses"

Bo Derek, Actress

"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses"

Bo Derek, Actress

"Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week"

Bette Midler, Actress

"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"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

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