Horse Quotes - Page 27

• Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.

  Larissa Ione

  Dark, Eyebrows, Names

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• Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Mean, Men

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.677, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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• This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Sleep, Night

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Father, War

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Running, Fire, Two

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• Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Bigs, Mines

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• Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

  Julian Assange

  Character, Argument, Holes

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Beer, Phones, Labs

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Bimbos of the Death Sun”, p.86, RosettaBooks

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• Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Noble, Deeds

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Air

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• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Clouds, Wind

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

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• Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Faces, Spit

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [214]

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• On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

  Shirley Jackson

  Cat, Moon, Wings

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.54, Obelix Books

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• Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

  Ovid

  Running, Night, Translations

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Team, Sitting

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• The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

  George W. Melville

  Taught, Docile, Ifs

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• You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Malt, Peasants

  William Shakespeare (2003). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
  thou learn a prayer without book.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Book, Sassy

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• ...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

  Rachel Field

  Rain, Fall

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.

  Daniel C. Peterson

  Strong, Honesty, Book

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• The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

  David Aaron Kessler

  Food, Government, Safety

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• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Country, Events

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

  Peire Cardenal

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

  Peire Cardenal

  Men, Justice, Thieves

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