#ranch

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#bigger #cross #go #horses #i

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#books #changes #control #copyright #editorial

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#aged #appearance #branches #came #evidently

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. ↗

— Jean Genet

#black #branches #country #deep #did

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#football #franchise #i #nfl #own

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one. ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#branch #called #executive #executive branch #government

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bending #beneath #bird #branch #feels

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches. ↗

— Felix Klein

#departs #developing #diverse #earlier #into