Cowboy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
-- Adam Michnik -
I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
-- Adrian Peterson -
It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
-- Al Michaels -
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of ***** if you're lucky.
-- Alan Moore -
Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.
-- Alex Cox -
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.
-- Alistair Cooke -
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
-- Annie Proulx -
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
-- Barry Watson -
Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.
-- Billy Campbell -
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
-- Blake Shelton -
Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
-- Bob Dylan -
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
-- Bob Dylan -
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
-- Bridget Hall -
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
-- Brion James -
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
-- Bruce Dern -
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
-- Bruce Jay Friedman -
You get that horse to really operate as if he’s your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.
-- Buck Brannaman -
I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things, get your horse comfortable. Heck, on the first ride you should be swinging a rope off a horse. You should be doing this not so you can rope a cow, but just to get him (your horse) gentle. You can’t think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you’d better prepare em for it in other ways.
-- Buck Brannaman -
Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
-- Bum Phillips -
Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.
-- Caitlin Kittredge -
The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.
-- Calamity Jane -
Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
-- Charles Goodnight -
I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.
-- Charles Haley -
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
-- Charles Marion Russell -
The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.
-- Charles Marion Russell -
I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.
-- Chic Murray -
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
-- Chris Colfer -
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.
-- Chris Hadfield -
Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas
-- Christina Milian -
That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.
-- Cindy Gerard -
I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.
-- Clay Allison -
I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
-- Clayton Moore -
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
-- Cloris Leachman -
I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
-- Cynthia Breazeal -
I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
-- Dan Fouts -
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
-- Daniel Boone -
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
-- Daniel Craig -
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
-- Dave Brubeck -
Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman
-- Dawn French -
To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
-- Deborah Kass -
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
-- Dick Dale -
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
-- Dick York -
Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.
-- Doc Holliday -
Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?
-- Doc Holliday -
I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.
-- Drew Brees -
Always have faith in God, Yourself and the Cowboys.
-- Eddie Sutton -
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
-- Elia Kazan -
If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.
-- Emmitt Smith -
One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.
-- Emmitt Smith -
Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.
-- Emmitt Smith -
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
-- Eric Bell -
Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.
-- Gena Showalter -
A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.
-- Gene Autry -
What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.
-- George Clooney -
Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.
-- George Friedman -
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!
-- Hank Williams, Jr. -
You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.
-- Hank Williams, Jr. -
The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.
-- Harry Reid -
I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.
-- Heath Ledger -
I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.
-- Henry Green -
I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.
-- Herb Adderley -
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
-- Hugo Chavez -
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
-- Illeana Douglas -
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
-- J. Frank Dobie -
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
-- J. Frank Dobie -
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
-- J. Frank Dobie -
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
-- James Caan -
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
-- James Herbert -
And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.
-- James St. James -
I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.
-- Jason Aldean -
I always wore cowboy boots and drove a truck, and talked like this. So everywhere I would go in comedy people would say, "Foxworthy, you ain't nothing but a redneck from Georgia!" It kind of became a formula joke.
-- Jeff Foxworthy -
I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.
-- Jeff Foxworthy -
My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
-- Jenna Bush -
Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'
-- Jennifer Grant -
Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses.
-- Jerry Jones -
There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ***** if you dont shut up.
-- Jim Ross -
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.
-- Jim Shepard -
Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...
-- Jimi Hendrix -
But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.
-- Jimmy Johnson -
And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.
-- Jimmy Johnson -
Well, sir, I ain't a for real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud.
-- Joe Buck -
I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero...
-- Joe Gibbs -
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
-- John Dunning -
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
-- John Ford -
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
-- John Hurt -
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
-- John le Carre -
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.
-- John Sayles -
Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.
-- John Wayne -
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.
-- John Wayne -
Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.
-- Johnny Christ
