quotes about Ponies
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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
-- Alan BradleySource : Alan Bradley (2013). “The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows”, p.123, Delacorte Press
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.
-- Buffalo BillSource : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
-- Chris Adrian -
Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why
-- Dustin Hoffman -
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But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
-- Eli Wallach -
I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.
-- Honor TracySource : Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958
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Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.
-- Joe R. Lansdale -
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
-- Julie Burchill -
I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
-- Karen Russell -
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I was a gypsy, living a carefree life of ponies and tennis.
-- Lilly Pulitzer -
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
-- Lou ReedSource : Song: What's Good, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992
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If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.
-- Meg Cabot -
It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
-- Patricia Briggs -
I wouldn’t kill your pony. I’d like to believe it, anyway. I’d like to believe I wouldn’t drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn’t come up.
-- Richard Siken -
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.
-- S. J. Perelman -
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
-- Tim Cahill -
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
-- Wayne Thiebaud -
I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.
-- Allen W. Wood -
Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.
-- Edna O'Brien -
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
-- Chris Adrian -
I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.
-- Raymond BucklandSource : Source: paganpages.org