Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Mercer

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.

You want to help these cowboys that have been out there managing the ranch very well to keep doing that. These people working on the ranch would keep their jobs. Where are you going to find another ranch job? These people - that's their life.

Mark Allen

All the skills of the cowboy that you used to see in the wild west shows on Vaudeville and on TV.

This has evolved from an older man's sport to a family sport. Our dads, more or less, were big cowboy fans. And their sons, the 'baby boomers,' watched cowboy stories on Saturday mornings.

Maureen Dowd

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

Garrett Hedlund

Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

George Clooney

What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

Jimmy Fallon

Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game.

Jimmy Johnson

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

John Ford

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

John le Carre

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

Jim Ross

There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

M. C. Gainey

With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

Meg Cabot

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

Richelle Mead

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

Richelle Mead

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Paul Lynde

Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

Paul McCartney

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

Patton Oswalt

Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.

Prince Philip

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

Sarah Vowell

No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Reba McEntire

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

Richard Rodriguez

I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

Robin Williams

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

Roy Bean

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes

Roy Bean

Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering' you none.

Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Wayne White

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.

Van Jones

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Victor Cruz

I was actually a Cowboys fan.

Sonny Liston

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Paul Walker

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.