Courage Quote by John Wayne

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the…

— Philip Anschutz

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

— Herman Melville

“I love the idea of westerns. It’s a simple dynamic: a man or woman overcoming hardship to carve out a meaningful life in a…

— Darrell Pitt

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field…

— Robert Penn Warren

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The West to me is where the landscape is,

— Lee Friedlander

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The West is anything but altruistic.

— Paul Kagame

“the west the best ...”

— Jim Morrison

For me, Westerns are about how people are on a frontier, between society and the wild, and what being in that middle ground makes…

— Nia DaCosta

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

— Ang Lee