“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.” SometimesWhiteFictionHorseScience FictionPrincessBatsCastlesGothicWhite Horse Author:Richard Dawkins
“I had an opportunity to move to L.A. back in 1999 and start up a horse racing network of all things. At the time, I was younger and married but didn't have kids; so we thought, Let's just go to L.A. for a while and have fun, and we can always come home. One thing led to another; and once I was out there, I had my eyes opened to this other world and quickly got a home and gardens show and did a game show and then The Bachelor ended up falling into my lap in 2001. And 'the rest is history' as they say.” WorldShowsHomeEyeKidsMovingFallOpportunityGamesFunOne ThingMarriedGardenAll ThingsHorseHaving FunComing HomeRacingLapOther WorldsBachelorsHorse RacingGame Shows Author:Chris Harrison
“We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].” WarHardInfluenceParticularIndustryCreatingHorseFilmmakerSimilarityWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoeWarCharacterActionAudienceEnvironmentShapesAppreciateHorseLensesWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I like the ending of the movie [War Horse], simply because it's such a demanding scene emotionally, and yet [the look] is all done on camera. I like the work not to be manipulated digitally. And it's all done on camera [in that scene].” LooksWarDoneSceneHorseCamerasWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instances, we had a rider dressed in a green suit. The rider would guide the horse through the frame, and through CGI [we removed] the rider. But that's about it.” LittlesWarRunningHappenedHorseGreenGuidesInstanceSuitsRidersTrenchesCgiWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.” WayBeautifulExampleGrewMomGrew UpHorseMy MomBeachMakeupRidingEffortless Author:Gigi Hadid
“One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our black-and-white television and watching the caisson roll by and hearing the clip-clop of the horses. It's actually one of my earliest memories.” RememberBlackPresidentMemoriesWhiteRoomsTelevisionSittingHorseHearingFuneralBlack And WhiteLiving RoomClip Author:Mike Pence
“Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.” PeopleRememberWhiteRoomsSeeingHairMetsHorseCornersAwfulTeaPrizeAround The CornerSunglassesBallerinaReally AmazingCarnegieKgbLeonTrotting Author:Paul Laffoley
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.” WantFirstsPoliticalSoundHistoryOne ThingHorseComplainingFirst LadySaddles Author:Jackie Kennedy
“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.” PoliticalPoliticsPaperSummerHorseUpsetPapersJuly Author:Jackie Kennedy
“When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.” ChildrenTodayFacesIndividualSpeakVoiceWhitePracticeHappenedStyleHorseShameRaisesPrisonCaughtCorruptionTitlesServantRejectsCustomsOfficersCowsPeersCivil ServantsWhite HorsePariahs Author:Wole Soyinka
“Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.” MenWantLooksChildrenKidsWantedStuffOne ThingFeminismFiguresKingsInvolvedConnectionsHorseAncientWarriorBrutalCraveGreeceIliadAncient GreeceSpartaLoving Children Author:Stephen Marche
“Remember, for 5,000 years people probably rode those horses. They probably felt that horses were a permanent part of civilization. Everybody has had this moment.” PeopleYearsMomentsRememberFeltCivilizationHorsePermanent Author:Ken Moelis
“See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.” MindMeanLongViewsHorsePlantMilkCowsHarvestCorn Author:Warren G. Bennis
“In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is incredibly powerful and expansive, omniscient and can go anywhere and see anything, but - and this is the catch - it's colored by the habits of thought we made in life.” MindMadeDiesPowerfulCuttingHabitHorseBuddhistOmniscientWild Horses Author:George Saunders
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughShowsActionLeftRealizingWhitePartySeeingHorseWake UpResponsePassionateAll KindsTeaVisibleWakingInitiativeKnightsTea PartyOligarchyWhite Horse Author:Naomi Wolf
“I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."” ShouldDoeBookReadingMy FriendsHorse Author:Judy Blume
“My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.” MindPersonsIdeasStatesBodyMightHappensGivenAnimalViewsPowerfulTeachGoneHabitExcitingHorseEverydayAncientChecksHopefulLoadOf My Mind Author:George Saunders
“Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.” StillsWholeStyleStonesHorseClassicAdamRollingArrangementsAlleysRolling StonesVery TrueWild Horses Author:Alicia Keys
“The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.” BigsMajorsHorseAutomobileBig ChangesMajor Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being a lamp it illuminates the space around it. Therefore, the practice of purifying one's soul, of living virtuously, has tremendous impacts upon the ethics of the surrounding society.” DoeSoulRunningSpacePracticeVirtueEthicsHorseImpactLampsPurifying Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.” PeopleYearsHumansLooksLongHas BeensSaidHardCareExistenceExampleFieldsRevolutionPeriodsHorseOilPermanentInternalsStabilityEnginesFavouriteTechnologicalAutomobileHuman ExistenceCombustionOil Field Author:Reed Hastings
“In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.” TryingRealizingStruggleHorseReinsStop Trying Author:Bette Midler
“I'm the type that makes attempt after attempt and moves forward like a wild horse.” MovingTypeHorseMoving ForwardWild Horses Author:Seungri
“We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.” DifferentDogCatHorse Author:Sherry Turkle
“As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.” MindSometimesTermHorseHolding On Author:Diane Lane
“I feel like the big twist shows are now off the table. I think Westworld was probably the last one to Trojan horse this idea of the young man in black. They were doing non-linear storytelling, but disguising it. Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy have spoken openly about how they just didn't think people were going to figure it out that fast.” PeopleThinkingMenJoyBlackHorseStorytellingJonahNolan Author:Damon Lindelof
“On the acting side, they actually tell us to lie about things that we don't know and later scramble to learn. "Do you ride horses?" "Yes, I do." I think scrambling is the death of most of us in the industry.” ThinkingLyingActingHorse Author:Yvette Nicole Brown
“I started playing polo when I was nine years old. I'm from Argentina, so in Argentina polo is more of a common thing. We have a lot of horses and a polo tradition and it's something that goes from generation to generation.” CommonTraditionHorse Author:Nacho Figueras
“A friend of mine had this idea a few years ago. We thought it would be a great way to promote the sport and to put polo in front of a lot more people in an unexpected place: the romance novel. There's a lot of people that care about those kinds of stories, especially women, and it would help people to know what the polo life is all about. It's not just what you see in the newspapers or on Pretty Woman. There's a lot more to it: the time spent in the barn, how much we love the horses, the relationship with the horses and with the family, etc.” PeopleKindHelpingCareRomanceSportsNovelHorseUnexpectedRomance NovelTime SpentPretty Woman Author:Nacho Figueras
“I have to say my relationship with the horses is the biggest thing, and it grows. I love horses more and more every day, and I'm breeding, so when I'm playing a horse that's the son of a horse, the daughter of a horse I used to play, it's like bonding. So I think that's the most amazing part of it. It's the passion that we polo players have for the horses first, and then the game and the strategy of the game and winning and the team and your teammates, all of those things are a big part of it, but the horses are my favorite part.” ThinkingPassionWinningPlayerTeamSonDaughterHorseStrategyMy FavoriteTeammateMost Amazing Author:Nacho Figueras
“Prince Harry is a great guy, very competitive; he's been playing polo all his life. Riding is in his blood. His grandmother loves horses, his grandfather played polo, his father played polo, his brother plays polo, so it's in his blood. He likes to play hard, we joke about it and it's great.” GuyFatherBrotherJokesHorseGrandmotherGrandfatherGreat Guy Author:Nacho Figueras
“My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to that than the era in which he died. He was born in 1891, no television, no phones, barely any electricity. He wrote a book to all of us that was really just a compilation of the letters that he had written over the years to my grandmother when they were courting, in the horse and buggy era. Everybody said, "When did you have time to do this?" Relating their own lives to his. He said, "What do you mean, when did I have time? This is all we did." There was no TV, none of that.” MeanBookWarFatherHorseCivil WarGrandmotherElectricityMy Grandmother Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to loyalty - its importance for certain central human relations such as friendships, but also its corruptibility in the sense that loyalty could be invoked against other moral constraints: it sometimes function as something of a moral Trojan horse, undermining other moral considerations.” SometimesMoralEthicsImportanceHorseRelationPoliceLoyaltyConsiderationHuman Relations Author:John Kleinig
“Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many of them Roman, some of them Greek, all kinds of wonderful standing figures or heads or horses. It all suddenly became a passion of mine. I finally got to see that exhibition, which led to the idea of bringing up the statue in the film.” KindFilmPassionWonderfulHorseAll KindsGreek Author:James Ivory
“We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling shows and by what we're then deducing about who's up, who's down, and I'm just not sure that's very helpful to readers, it certainly doesn't elevate the debate and, and the problem is if you, if you cover these things, and I don't think the Times is particularly culpable, I think other news organizations are worse, if you cover them in an entirely "who's up, who's down" horse race way.” ThinkingWritingProblemHorseDebateNot SureHelpful Author:Frank Bruni
“You're encouraging a response in citizens and the public, that has nothing to do with an informed decision, that has nothing to do with policy, that has nothing to do with any of that but that just kind of turns it into a competition they're watching as if they're watching the Preakness or the Belmont Stakes and I think if we want people to make more cool-headed, sober-minded decisions covering elections as horse races is the antithesis of doing that.” PeopleThinkingKindDecisionPolicyHorseElectionCompetitionResponseAntithesis Author:Frank Bruni
“The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.” MeanRunningHonestLosingHorseElectionSurpriseDemocratPointingSurprise Me Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” PeopleThinkingRememberHumanityChristViolenceTerribleUniqueHorseIslamTerrorCommittedBetray Author:Barack Obama
“To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue factory. That means America is still a step ahead of the European nations who are confronting a debt crisis, of Japan that's in its second lost decade.” MeanHorseCrisis Author:Paul Ryan
“One of the things I've found really interesting about the show is that a lot of people really relate to our animal characters, more than we thought they would. Part of that is, because they are animals, people project themselves onto them. If BoJack just looks like Will Arnett, people go, "Oh, I know who that guy is. That's a Will Arnett type." But because he's a horse, people can go, "Oh, I'm kind of like him in some ways."” PeopleKindCharacterGuyAnimalInterestingHorseReally Interesting Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“It's really cool to get these guests on the show BoJack Horseman: not just actors, but, "Can I get Jonathan Lethem on my weird talking horse cartoon show to talk about how growing up in Brooklyn, he always dreamed of being a ringtone?"” Growing UpHorseCartoonReally Cool Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.” TeamHorse Author:Nick Laird
“When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.” WritingCharacterPurposeWindowHorsePoint Of View Author:Robin Hobb
“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.” TryingBookReadingTeachStudyHorseWestern Author:Don McLean
“I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment that you are going into whether it's concert or recital, or stage. When I know something so well, I've done it so often, and you kind of walk out for Tuesday night's performance, or you feel like that, that makes me more nervous then being geared up. A little bit like race horses. In the same way that the horses are always difficult to get into that lineup, the worst time of my life is the 10 or 15 minutes before I go on stage.” ThinkingKindDoneDifficultAttentionEnvironmentWorstHealthyHorseNervousTuesdayNervousness Author:Thomas Hampson