Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged…

“In that darkness, the Others came riding, she used to say, dropping her voice lower and lower. Cold and dead they were, and they…

— George R.R. Martin

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,…

— Donald Hall

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You…

— Gary Hamel

“Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words…

— Ted Dekker

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

— Charlie Watts

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

— Roger Scruton

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle…

— Aaron Watson

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll…

— Charlotte Le Bon

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole…

— Anonymous

“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There…

— The Invisible Committee

“Future generations would be convinced that nothing good could ever have existed in a country that produced such evil. They would think only of…

— Eric Metaxas

“Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened, so it…

— Alaric Hutchinson

“The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.”

— William Blake

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,…

— Garry Wills

“I wasn’t different from most girls I knew. Well, except the fact I was exponentially better looking, but why beat a dead horse?”

— Fisher Amelie