#hors

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#composers #fact #give #good #nobody

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#good #him #horse #i #running

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#horses #nets #ride #throwing #were

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. ↗

— John Howe

#away #before #eager #i #ideas

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. ↗

— Miguel Serrano

#books #death

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #frighten #horses #i #long

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses. ↗

— Davy Jones

#england #farm #got #horses #i

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ↗

— Dean Inge

#horse #human #human beings #saw #shapes

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry