Like Riding A Horse Quotes

#1. The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

Ed Eyestone

#2. That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.

Li-Young Lee

#3. I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Minka Kelly

#4. Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

Mary Gaitskill

#5. I felt like I was riding into infinity, and soon I forgot I existed as the sky surrounded us in a blanket of stars, constellations the texture of slushies, swirling blue and violet and gold. I was swallowed b the universe, riding on a white horse in a midnight dream...

Aishabella Sheikh

#6. I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Arlo Guthrie

#7. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

Ray Wylie Hubbard

#8. The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control.

Yutaka Katayama

#9. I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

Brian Cox

#10. You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Gail Devers

#11. There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

Will Rogers

#12. Sometimes I find myself standing on the edge of a pool of despair, filled by my tears...but not today.

Judith Sanders

#13. Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

#14. When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.

Stefanie Scott

#15. Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.

Assata Shakur

#16. Brain cells last as long as you do. You are issued with a hundred billion or so at birth and that is all you are ever going to get. It has been estimated that you lose five hundred of them an hour, so if you have any serious thinking to do there really isn't a moment to waste.

Bill Bryson

#17. I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.

Miley Cyrus

#18. Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

Lewis Carroll

#19. Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

Gary Cooper

#21. She was more like riding a sofa than a horse, with her broad back and sides curved like a hogshead of beer.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one tells you the horse is lame or that it's an eclipse, and there won't be a sunset that day.

Kristin Billerbeck

#23. I'm not going to be Rihanna. No one can be Rihanna except for Rihanna.

Celine Dion

#24. Often we can't find the power of life even when we're born with it; like a horseman can't find his horse when he is riding on it.

Debasish Mridha

#25. The artist, painter, poet, or musician, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetic sense; but that is akin to the sexual instinct, and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#26. I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

Diego Sanchez

#27. There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

Steven Weinberg

#28. If it was scandalous for girls in the 1960s to wear pants to school, what else will we look back on & shake our heads at? What else can't we see in the future? And at that, what else can we dream up?

Lisa Factora-Borchers

#29. I wish we had horses to ride," Maria said. "In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

Kristin Cast

#31. There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.

Rumi

#32. The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

Negash Ali

#33. Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#34. Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

Joe Bastianich

#35. Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

Anais Nin

#36. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

Ron Miles