“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.” StatesFactsReligiousShareEconomicSpecialCarMaterialsIndustryHorsePossessionOilTreasureAttachmentRootedAutomobileMaterial PossessionsTexanOil Industry Author:Jim Atkinson
“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingPainFacesTurnsVoiceRiskSpecialCryWillingColdHorseFingersTrackWoundsSubtleDriversBusGreyBartenderFilingRespect PeopleBus Driver Author:J. Ruth Gendler
“No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!” CharacterHappensSpecialGreatnessBuildingVictoryBattleTestsHorseHarderSugarRidingWithin YouCan NotEncouragingTestimonyBad DayCharacter BuildingSourLemonsSomething SpecialLemonadeHaving A Bad DayGood HorseSpecial YouHorsemanshipMake LemonadeGreatness Within Author:Les Brown
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.” IfsWorldArtistGamesPracticeSpecialSubjectsFiguresHorseCompetitionHungerProfitBlowInnocenceWinnerCrushSuspectsLoserAppetiteElusiveEphemeralDividingBarbaricRankingSkaterVindictiveWinner And LoserBartok Author:Russell Sherman
“Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.” IfsWantYearsLooksMeanDoneBigsGovernmentWould BePresidentInterestGroupsSpecialHorsePressureMedicineArguingReformSicknessPresident ObamaOfferingMore MoneyLegislationTradingComprehensiveSpecial InterestsBig GovernmentPressure Groups Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.” ShouldLiteratureForeverSpecialHorseDivinityBrutesHalosIndignity Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.” PeopleWellsWarChallengesSkySpecialEffectsHorseDigitalSpecial EffectsWar Horse Author:Steven Spielberg
“But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.” KnowsLongWholeOne ThingSpecialHorseDecentSpecial You Author:C. S. Lewis
“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.” PassionHalfAirSpecialHabitFitHorseCalmPursuitResistanceVanityMannersIndifferenceBreaking DownGratificationHeartedBrutalityHalf HeartedSuaveLoose Women Book:Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
“So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.” AnimalQualitySpecialDogHabitTasteHorseIntelligentRegardEtcManifestTemperTransmission Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality
“She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.” HandsSpecialHorseEmbraceSavedOccasionsSpecial OccasionMuzzle Author:Jean M. Auel