Old West Quotes

• I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

  Jason Segel

  Water, Trying, West

  "Jason Segel taps Apatow stable for his forthcoming muppets movie" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

  David Carradine

  Horse, Gun, Fire

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• Always drink upstream from the herd.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Leadership, Drinking

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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• If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Sheep, Genius

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• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

  Tammara Webber

  Inspirational, Cowboy, Digging A Hole

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.521, Tammara Webber

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• Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

  Debbie Macomber

  Horse, Cowboy, Grandpa

  Debbie Macomber (2013). “Texas Two-Step”, p.98, Harlequin

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• Don't squat with your spurs on.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Spurs, Cowgirls

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• Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Cowboy, Outcomes, Timing

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Cowboy, Silence, Missing

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still heard echoes and already saw shadows, on moonlit nights when the coyotes yapped on the hilltops, and on hot summer afternoons when mirages shimmered, dust devils spun across the flats, and towering cumulus clouds sailed like galleons across the vast blueness of the sky. Echoes of remembrance of what men once did there, and visions of what they would do together.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Night, Men

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• The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

  Tom Mix

  Cowboy, Mind, Want

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• The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

  Laura Gilpin

  Art, Romance, Doe

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• Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

  John Wayne

  Art, Mistake, Hate

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• I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but just as opposed to using cowboy iconography, using World War II iconography as kind of the jumping-off point.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Cowboy, Jumping

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• The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

  Steven Spielberg

  Drama, Eye, Makeup

  Source: collider.com

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• If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sorry, White, Answers

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

  Zig Ziglar

  Men, Games, Guy

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Writing, Character, Expression

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• I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.

  George W. Bush

  War, Kids, America

  George W. Bush's speech to employees at the Pentagon, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2001.

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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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