“Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.” KnowsFirstsDoneFactsChanceDegreesShotsHorseMurder Author:Stanley Kubrick
“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in” WorldDoeSoulFacesNightCitiesWiseSeaStreetsBattleShapesQuietDrawsShotsHorseTradeDearBonesForestsGatesCampsPaleBloodyHuntersInvitedNapsCartsDear FriendHoundsWarpWeavers Book:Suttree Source: Suttree
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.” LastsWeekGunShotsHorseTrackOpeningGambling Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.” PeopleGivingTryingMatterCertainFallSubjectsHugeKissingGunShotsHollywoodHorseOriginalsStrategyGenrePlotDevicesAtomsExhaustedCowboyImageryArrowsSubject MatterHollywood MoviesFalling OffRecycledFolders Author:John Baldessari
“Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.” IfsKnowsFirstsHas BeensWholeAbleFunLuckyShotsHorseWesternWeatherShootingStagecoaches Author:Judd Nelson
“Ranger’s gonna hate this,” Tank said. “Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.” SaidEnoughHateShotsHorseSmellGatesShowersTanksRangers Book:Plum Lucky Source: Plum Lucky
“Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside. The door banged shut after him, and Thomas, sitting bolt upright, seized reins of the horses. A moment later the carriage had lurched forth into the night, leaving Gabriel staring, infuriated, after it.” SaidI CanEnoughMomentsHandsNightDoorsShotsSittingHorseLeavingStaringShirtsFlewBoltsReinsCarriagesGabriel Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.” PeopleGivingYearsTwoHomeSeemsHappensAgeGirlFatherNamesPiecesBloodStrangeBandShotsGoldHorseCaliforniaPlusCowardCashTomsFourteenFortsArkansasCredenceWintertimeCash Money Author:Charles Portis
“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.” WantI CanHardUseFacesNamesWaitingDarkBehindsCallingRight NowShotsHorseBarsEyebrowsWhiskeyLiquor Author:Larissa Ione
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” PeopleInspirationalLooksEnoughPoliticsBusinessMilitaryHealthyShotsHorseRegardSocialismEnterpriseMilkCowsPullingTigersWagonsEconomic FreedomSturdyPredatoryPrivate Enterprise Author:Winston Churchill
“What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.” PastFacesFeltCreaturesShotsEarsHorseFasterKneesStrideGreyhounds Book:The Napoleonic Trilogy Source: The Napoleonic Trilogy
“As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!” FirstsHumansHas BeensTwoOpportunitySidesPowerfulFourHeardDyingSpeechExpectationsShotsAccountsHorseLatterCompanionDeath And DyingProtectedProvidenceBulletsCoatsProbabilityArrivalsContradicting Book:Life of George Washington Source: Life of George Washington
“Its... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. Its the worst thing youll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.” ThinkingMindHardWorstDirectorsShotsHorseDiedGet BackWorst ThingsHard Things Author:Michael Bay