Western Quotes

1229 Western quotes by 890 unique authors

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on,… — Joel McCrea
All Quiet on the Western Front. — Erich Maria Remarque
I never really did a western western. — John Malkovich
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang… — Tom Robbins
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The… — Stephen Colbert
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got… — Ornette Coleman
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
In general, the Western body has become a global brand. — Susie Orbach
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. — John Shelby Spong
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was… — Dustin Clare
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture,… — Youssou N'Dour
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to… — Youssou N'Dour
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind… — Lawrence Kasdan
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me… — Liu Xiaobo
I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've… — Minka Kelly
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a… — Amitabh Bachchan
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs. — Bryan Brown
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music. — Danny Boyle
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts… — Edward Bach
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past… — Gary Becker

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