Western Quotes · Page 7

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

— Mitch Horowitz

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

— Andy Beshear

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

— Naomi Wolf

I read a lot of Louis L'amour Western books.

— Tee Grizzley

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

— Samuel Goldwyn

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.

— Heidi Julavits

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

— Quentin Tarantino

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.

— Philip Hammond

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began…

— Alain de Botton

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

— Camille Paglia

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.

— Anupam Roy

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

— John Henrik Clarke

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain…

— Leonid Feodorov

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been…

— Ruth Benedict

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

— George Carlin

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the…

— Harry Dean Stanton

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of…

— Dean Radin

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just…

— Maya Beiser

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western…

— Marshall McLuhan

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp…

— Elmore Leonard

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves…

— Ulrich Beck

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss…

— Colin MacInnes

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly…

— Andrew Roberts

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although…

— Joan Didion

“One more salt to try," Kellan said, reaching into the box. He brought a jar of black, flaky crystals up to the…

— Melissa Cutler

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being…

— Dervla Murphy

US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that…

— Neal Stephenson

Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically…

— Bun B

The Western Wall is long enough for us all.

— Benny Gantz

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

— Camille Paglia

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

— Julie Benz

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

— W. Edwards Deming

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

— Jensen Ackles

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

— Judd Nelson

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“I laugh. Yer crazy, I says. I was fine till I met you, he says.”

— Moira Young