Quotes About Horseshoes

#1. Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden
so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

Julia Child

#2. Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

Don Tapscott

#3. He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes!

Waylon Jennings

#4. Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

Christina Dodd

#6. Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Dan Quayle

#7. Oh, so close!" she said, her smile getting wider. "But close only counts in horseshoes and dragon fire.

James Riley

#8. As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

George H. W. Bush

#9. Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson

#10. One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.

Carroll Quigley

#11. I pick up the last of my three horseshoes. I concentrate, make certain that my aim is perfect, bring my arm back ever so slightly, and toss the horseshoe.

Karen Pokras Toz

#12. Vine, the Ringling Brothers circus, Friendster, horseshoes, pay phones, typewriters, etc. Things go out of business. Don't think it can't happen to Madison Avenue. Adapt or die.

Andrew Essex

#13. Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes.
- Jon Snow

George R R Martin

#14. Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

#15. Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.

Saul David

#16. Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

David Henry

#17. It didn't matter that I'd done none of those things. With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.

Sarah Dessen

#18. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard

#19. I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

Mac DeMarco

#20. Dorothy's cooking was legendary. It had once been said that she could turn soil to cake. William, her husband, had remarked that he could achieve the reverse, earning himself a sharp smack with the rolling pin.

Jonathan Renshaw

#21. There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Vanessa Paradis

#22. Hayes. Peter Hayes.

Veronica Roth

#23. Every person's worst fear-that no one will be able to love us in spite of our scars.

M. Leighton

#24. The other man's arse is always cleaner!

Stephen Fry

#25. Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

Michael A. Walsh

#26. It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

Stephenie Meyer

#27. Beauty crowds me till I die,
Beauty, mercy have on me!
But if I expire today,
Let it be in sight of thee

Emily Dickinson

#28. I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

#29. Hippies, hippies ... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Trey Parker

#30. Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Barry Commoner

#31. I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Rupert Sheldrake

#32. Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#33. Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

#34. Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

Mal Fletcher