Horse And Carriage Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Isabella Bird

#3. For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

Clive Sinclair

#4. Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Waters

#5. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

Moby

#8. In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Honore De Balzac

#9. Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

John Wooden

#10. Love and the traditional marriage doesn't necessarily go together like a horse and carriage. -Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#11. Judging from the unfamiliar number, I assumed the text came from Shannon. If not, I would see who came by my house at 4:30 and go with it. Maybe it would be Mr. Darcy coming to pick me up in an extravagant horse-drawn carriage, but I couldn't picture Mr. Darcy using a cell phone.

Michelle Madow

#12. From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

C.S. Lewis

#13. I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

Gabrielle Zevin

#14. Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.

Suzanne Pleshette

#15. My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

Walter Annenberg

#16. he'd wanted to do for years while we dated - the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. Life is a smoke that curls-
Curls in a flickering skein,
That winds and whisks and whirls,
A figment thin and vain,
Into the vast inane.
One end for hut and hall.

William Ernest Henley

#18. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Emmett Shear

#19. The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

Dean Martin

#20. Health and programming should go together like a horse and carriage. You can't have one without the other. In our sedentary office work, we often forget that an absence of health is as bad as a lack of programming skills.

Staffan Noteberg

#21. I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Hayley Williams

#22. It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#23. It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Marina Abramovic

#24. We're dealing with fundamentalists ... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.

Robin Williams

#25. Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

Charles McCarry

#26. The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene's excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!

Hunter Murphy