Quotes with horse-play

Quotes 441 till 460 of 617.

  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Stendhal The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Alex Cox The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • H. Youngman The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Beth Henley The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • Bob Newhart The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Gabriel Heatter The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Oscar Wilde The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Nancy Lopez The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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  • John Steinbeck The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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