My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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.
The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.
You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on a horse, I'm more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.
I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.
So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
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.
'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.
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.
The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.