#horses

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever #cowboy #cowboys #creative #creativity

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#horses #increases #large #only #performance

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#desert #engaged #horses #night #our

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#difficulty #henry #him #his #horses

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. ↗

— Irving Ravetch

#dogs #everybody #gets #happens #horses

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#act #also #buying #certain #earning

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#life #run-with-the-horses #faith

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses ↗

— Jane Smiley

#horses #love

Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#cormac-mccarthy #john-dunn #men

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. ↗

— P.J. Sullivan

#greatness #historical #history #horses #men