I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.
Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.
I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.
You cannot make horses 'safe.
People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.
Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.
I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.
I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.
You can't ride two horses with one behind.
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything. '