#horse

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#chickens #coats #course #dear #dogs

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#horses #i #know #like #parting

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#day #did #doing #embarrassing #get

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. ↗

— William Cavendish

#dressed #equally #except #haunches #his

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#her #hoped #horses #i #majesty

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#enough #enough people #enterprise #healthy #horse

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#horse #keeps #people #sense #thing

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#horse #horse racing #horses #i #interested

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy: it is also because, like language itself for the post-structuralists, it is composed less of signs — stable meanings — than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse, it is not immediately obvious what this signifies: it may have many contradictory meanings, may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. The image of the horse, that is to say, is not a sign in Saussure’s sense - it does not have one determined signified tied neatly to its tail - but is a signifier which may be attached to many different signifieds, and which may itself bear the traces of the other signifiers which surround it. (I was not aware, when I wrote the above sentence, of the word-play involved in ‘horse’ and ‘tail’: one signifier interacted with another against my conscious intention.) The unconscious is just a continual movement and activity of signifiers, whose signifieds are often inaccessible to us because they are repressed. This is why Lacan speaks of the unconscious as a ‘sliding of the signified beneath the signifier’, as a constant fading and evaporation of meaning, a bizarre ‘modernist’ text which is almost unreadable and which will certainly never yield up its final secrets to interpretation. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#freud #horses #lacan #language #post-structuralism