Cowboy Mythology Quotes & Sayings

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible. — Mark Twain

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. — Alfred Russel Wallace

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. — Jonathan Ive

It wasn't necessarily the booze and brothels. It was the growing gap in the country between the haves and have-nots, the corruption, the warlords now in parliament, the drug lords doubling as government officials, the general attitude of the foreigners from aid workers to the international troops, and the fact that no one ever seemed to be held accountable for anything. — Kim Barker

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. — Yogi Berra

Stop telling women to smile. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. — Maria Mitchell

We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in. — Neil M. Hanson

Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night. — Josh Strnad

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud. — Norman Finkelstein