Stirrup Quotes

#1. A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.

Luis Marden

#2. When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

Ann Romney

#3. He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Mark Shields

#4. It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

Henry Reed

#5. The eighties were a strange time for teenage fashion. We wore silk blouses and shoulder pads, neon earrings and jodhpur pants. Come to think of it, our pants were especially weird. We also wore stirrup pants, parachute pants, and velvet knickers. It was a real experimental pant time.

Amy Poehler

#6. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.

William Camden

#7. A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

Charles C. Mann

#8. Get your ass in the air, Caroline. I'm about to give you exactly what the fuck you need.

Anonymous

#9. It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!

Mila Kunis

#10. To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.

Ali Vincent

#11. Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

Philip Yancey

#12. I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

Dolly Parton

#13. I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Bobby Moynihan

#14. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Anna Friel

#15. Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

#17. Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Oliver Goldsmith

#18. WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

Jonny Lang

#20. A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Thomas Ehrlich

#21. Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments.

Ann Leckie

#22. My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Beth Orton