#hors

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #between #camels #care #creatures

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#born #does #horse #make #stable

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #funny #funny thing #go #got

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#authors #been #certain #corners #explored

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#astride #bad #good #good nature #horse

When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. ↗

— Orville Wright

#develop #dropped #end #few #found