"If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look."

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Source : "Thirty Tales & Sketches".

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

#Horse Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Equestrian Quotes

“When in doubt, pig out!”

Source : Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Pigs Out: His 42nd Book”, Ballantine Group
“When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.”
“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”
“Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.”
“One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.”
“One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity.”
“But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution”, p.378, Broadway Books
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”

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