Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

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.

Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.

No one wants to see me struggling to get a horse under control because I can't ride it. And no one wants to see me not knowing how to deal with the psychological makeup of the character.

I doubt it, because I have always understood that a horseback rider has to go in the same direction as the horse.

I can gallop, I can trot, I can move sideways and turn around. I can do everything I need to do on a horse.

You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

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

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.

I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

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

Every job requires a certain riding of a horse.

I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.