If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom... horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing a...bout unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart, Sick in whole and every part, And yet sicker thou art still For thinking that thou art not ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex ...about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cow and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grai...n, and on the far side of their smell there is hay and grass. Chicken shit is disagreeable and rasps the throat because of the quantity of ammonia. When you are cleaning out the henhouse, you're glad to go to the door and take a deep breath of fresh air. Pig and human excrement, however, smell the worst because men and pigs are carnivorous and their appetites are indiscriminate. The smell includes the sickeningly sweet one of decay. And on the far side of it is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, tr...aditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.... Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost--and will never lose--a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Holly: Oh, Brad, I'd do my act in clown alley or the horse stop for you. I'd do anything if it was just for you. Brad: Pigeon..., look. Out under the sky you know how I feel about you. But under the Big Top one performer's just like another to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 i...t as required.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That sound, everywhere about us, of the sea-- the tree among its tresses has always heard it,... and the horse dips his black body in the sound stretching his neck as if towards drinking water ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.... You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »