Quotes with hobby-horse

Quotes 41 till 60 of 102.

  • Bruce Dickinson I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Karl William Kapp If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be ten feet deep in horse manure.
    Karl William Kapp
    German-American economist (1910 - 1976)
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  • Ronald Dunn If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
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  • Brad Holland In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Mark Twain It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Mark Twain It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Scott Alexander Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Robert A. Cook Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Abraham Cowley Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Rebecca West Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bode Miller My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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