Bull By Horns Quotes

#1. The time of neutrality is over,this is the time of intervention where we can learn to grab the bull by the horns.

Euginia Herlihy

#2. Fuck with the bull, assholes, and get the horns.

J.A. Saare

#3. I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

Raquel Welch

#4. Speeches are like steer horns- A point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.

E. Anderson

#5. Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

James Joyce

#6. Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Josh Billings

#7. Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns

Sunday Adelaja

#8. In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

Paul Auster

#9. Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#10. Never dare, a bull with horns.

Anthony Liccione

#11. The link between animals and words goes way back. (Did you know that our letter A began its life as a drawing of the upside-down head of a bull? The two bits at the bottom that the A stands on, those were originally horns. The pointy top bit was its face and nose.)

Neil Gaiman

#12. We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.

Tina Sequeira

#13. He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#14. The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

Horace

#15. In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

Maia Wojciechowska

#16. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

Tony Dungy

#17. In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um ...

Padma Lakshmi

#18. The second somebody dies somebody else is born
People are celebrating while other people morn
Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign
Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

Aceyalone

#19. Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

Garth Ennis

#20. This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done,

Tony Shalhoub

#21. Fear comes at me like a massive bull with lowered horns ready to gore. But I have learned of the insubstantial nature of fear: if I stand my ground, it will pass right through me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

Gena Showalter

#23. And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

John Frusciante

#24. Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#25. Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. I'm just going to grab your horns.

Elizabeth Berg

#26. When you take the bull by the horns ... what happens is a toss-up.

William Pett Ridge

#27. To move ahead ... you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself!

Timothy Pina

#28. Part of the reason I haven't found a man who appeals to me is because men aren't raised to be men anymore, in my opinion. Gone are the take-the-bull-by-the-horns, never-say-die men legends are made of.

C.P. Smith

#29. Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

#30. Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

Paul Gleason