“All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses…”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
“Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
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P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
The Paris Review interview (1982)
Context: She doesn’t hold back anything from them. When they beg her not to depart, she reminds them that nothing lasts forever. She’s as truthful as the nursery rhymes. Remember that all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again. There’s such a tremendous truth in that. It goes into children in some part of them that they don’t know, and indeed perhaps we don’t know. But eventually they realize — and that’s the great truth.
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"King of Anything"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye.”
Gary Ross (1956) American film director
Seabiscuit (2003)
Context: He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye.
“Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.”
Uma Thurman (1970) American actress and model
Interview with Laura Yorke. Reader's Digest. July 2006
“We are not made for life at all, old horse.”
David Gemmell book Legend
It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 9
“I've got a fat head. There's nothing I can do about it.”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Moaning of Life, General Quotes