Rocking Horse Sayings

#1. Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

John Ashbery

#2. Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste

Tim Winton

#3. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Charles Dickens

#4. They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

John Keats

#5. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps
moving but does not make any progress.

Alfred A. Montapert

#6. Never mistake movement for action ... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#7. I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Diane Lane

#8. I'm going to kick down that fucking door at the end of the long, dark hallway and show everyone that I deserve the light.

Tara Sivec

#9. 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

#10. There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

J. Christopher Herold

#11. I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Philip Pearlstein

#12. Those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten.

Djuna Barnes

#13. Because I wanted that smile every morning right after mind-blowing sex and right before my tater tots. And I wanted it for a lifetime.

Kristen Ashley

#14. I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

#15. Even if the shoe fits, that doesn't mean I'm going to wear it; I don't want to wear somebody else's smelly old shoe. I'd rather go barefoot.

Toni Sorenson

#16. People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

George Carlin

#17. Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Baron De Montesquieu

#18. Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#19. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

Michael Shnayerson

#20. Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Bill Ackman

#21. I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times.

Alphonse Karr

#22. Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#23. Life is a great mystery.

Lailah Gifty Akita