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  • A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

    Horse   Dark   Past  
    Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.45, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

    Beauty   Horse   Dark  
  • Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

    Horse   Dark   Black  
  • It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

    Horse   Cousin   Son  
    Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.28, 谷月社
  • In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

    Horse   Dark   Race  
    "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.
  • ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

    Life   Religious   Horse  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam
  • Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

    Horse   Successful   Dark  
  • Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.

    Horse   Kings   Jobs  
  • Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

    Horse   Heart   Dark  
    Song: Tell Me Why-live
  • My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

    Running   Baby   Horse  
  • The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

    Horse   Distance   Dark  
    The Young Duke bk. 2, ch. 5 (1831). The Oxford English Dictionary has this as its earliest citation for the term dark horse, and Disraeli is frequently considered to be the coiner. However, an earlier usage is in the Edinburgh Advertiser, 24 Sept. 1822: "What is termed an outside or a dark horse always tells well for heavy betters."
  • What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or Dark Horse or BOOM! editor who's assigning work, then if you did your job properly to begin with, then the people you've hired can be trusted to do what they do without excessive meddling. The ideal situation you're shooting for as an editor is to groom a collaborative creative team to the point where their work sails effortlessly through production and the most you have to do is fix the spelling and the commas.

    Horse   Jobs   Team  
  • I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

    Running   Horse   Dark  
    Song: Dark Horse, Album: Dark Horse
  • I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

    Horse   Dark   Thinking  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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