Cowpokes Quotes & Sayings

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. — Jane Harman

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again. — David Harewood

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. — Billy Graham

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions. — Abdolkarim Soroush

You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo. — Jeffery Deaver

I shoulda taken ya into town, Missie. Gave ya a chance to see the outside world again, to visit an' chat. I missed yer need, Missie, an'-an' ya never complain-jest let me go on, makin' dumb mistakes right an' left. A sorry-looking bunch of cowpokes, a work-crazy husband an' a baby who can't say more than 'goo' ain't much fer company. Yet ya never, never say a thing 'bout it. I love you, too, Missie-so very much. — Janette Oke

My father was a lawyer. — Pat Robertson

A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier. — Asne Seierstad

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. — John Malkovich

The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place. — Liberty Ross

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] — Juvenal

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes. — Michael Biehn

My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy. — Kimberly Schlapman

Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons. — James Rozoff

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. — Loren Eiseley

After that, she went about her task with the fascination only women can have for wounds and pus — John Wiltshire

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record. — Mark Twain

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. — Bill Bryson

Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months. — George Plimpton