Best 309 quotes in «western quotes» category

You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.

You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country -- indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky -- provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

Of course, western is my native music.

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.