Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

I'm kind of a horse whisperer; I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures; I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

I'd say most stuntmen are injured working with horses. They have a one-celled brain and change their minds right in the middle of a stunt no matter how many times they do it right in rehearsal.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.