Quotes About Cowboys

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Wade worked his rope, readying it for the next calf, telling himself he didn't care if Abigail had fallen for Dylan's charm, didn't care if they were going out tomorrow night, didn't care if they got hitched and had a passel of kids. Dylan was slipping on the gloves Maddy had fetched as he passed Wade. "Must be losing my touch," he mumbled. Wade smothered the grin that fought for release.

We've got eggs and stuff. I could make an omelet. I skipped dinner too." "You cook?" "Cowboys have many hidden talents." Omelets were the only thing he cooked, but she didn't have to know that.

You're blushing." Daggonit. "Cowboys don't blush." "Au contraire.

The Kenyan Cowboys strive to carry on this [Happy Valley] tradition, mainly through drinking and such activities as putting "butter pats on the carnations on the dinner table and throwing them up at the ceiling to see if they will stick".

I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.

I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

I've always been a big Western fan.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

I always wanted to do a Western.

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.

Memories of the Civil War played a part in the animosity between cowboys and townspeople. The drovers were primarily Texans; more than a

civilizing influences. Is it any wonder they ran wild as soon as they reached an oasis, however primitive? They were starved for pleasure, for feminine companionship, for fun, crude as it might have been. By welcoming cowboys into his show and giving them heroic parts to play, Buffalo Bill transformed

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

by the end of the week, all the cowboys along the river knew that the only sporting woman in Lonesome Dove had abruptly given up the sport.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus Gus McCrae

As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores.