Saddles – Quotes

I prefer the saddle

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am … Read more

I have not tired

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep … Read more

So I wanted to

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it. Eli Wallach

I destroyed a lot

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction. Eddie Van Halen

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are \”back in the saddle again\”. Frederick Lenz

I have been hunted

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. Frank James

I was tired of

I was tired of an outlaw’s life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark … Read more

If any pale student,

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, … Read more

Every time I see

Every time I see someone taking care of a baby, I think why in the world would anyone willingly saddle themselves with that responsibility? Dov Davidoff

There were five writers

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles. Dom DeLuise