Dark Horse Sayings

#1. Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Neil Young

#2. Her carriage bespoke an exquisite misery, a wretchedness so perfect and so absolute that it manifested as dignity, as calm. More than a dark horse, she was darkness itself, the cloak of it.

Eleanor Catton

#3. Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.

Bun B.

#4. Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Stephen Colbert

#5. I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

Danny McBride

#6. I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

Iggy Azalea

#7. A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

James Joyce

#8. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

Andrew Carnegie

#9. I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

Rob Walton

#10. Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

Chad Kroeger

#11. He curled his finger under her chin as he rasped, "I'm goin' tae get it right this time, you know."
"I believe that, Scot." She gazed up at him with all the love she felt. "That's why you're still the dark horse I'm betting on.

Kresley Cole

#12. That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Rob Walton

#13. My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

Amanda Marshall

#14. I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

George Harrison

#15. Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

Robin Pecknold

#16. If you won her heart, you'd be top dawg.

Katy Perry

#17. How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning ... the faithful horse has been with us always.

Elizabeth Cotten

#20. If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

Alan Watts

#21. The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

Rufus Sewell

#22. If you don't have a challenge, find one,

George Sheehan

#23. That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.

Buck Brannaman

#24. The thing about pain is that it demands to be felt.

John Green

#25. Fear doesn't stop at a fence

Karen Braucher

#26. Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.

Terry Goodkind

#27. My love is sticky, like glue. I'd kill a horse just to give you some.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#28. I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

Joseph Brodsky

#29. The Captain, so close as he was, didn't warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse's hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

Greever Williams

#30. Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. 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.

William Sanderson

#32. Across the room, Hale smiled slightly. 'We can draw you a diagram if you need it.'
'No thanks,' Nick said. 'I think I've got everyone but you.

Ally Carter

#33. The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

Tina Folsom

#34. Oh God," Jenna said, "will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?

Richard Finney

#35. Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here."
"You're sure?"
"Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.

John Sandford