Wild West Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche.… — Nick Cave
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice… — Yasmine Galenorn
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us… — Luther Standing Bear
If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some… — Jack Handey
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and,… — George Mikes
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian,… — Greg Bear
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of… — Vince McMahon
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild… — Joe Meno
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the… — Arthur C. Clarke
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken… — Buffalo Bill
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved… — Gary Gygax
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which… — Queen Latifah
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of… — Steven Pinker
It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. — Steven Wright
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sunâ€¦ — Jim Morrison
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a… — D. H. Lawrence
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… — Caitlin Kittredge
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw… — David Harsanyi

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