(244 quotes found)
“What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare”
Daniel Webster
“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
Camille Paglia
“I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'”
Craig Bruce
“Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."”
Truman Capote
“I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.”
Franco Nero
“Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?Paul Lynde: A passenger.”
Paul Lynde
“That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.”
Mark Anderson
“As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.”
Walter Hill