Louis L'Amour Quotes
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
-
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
-
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
-
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
-
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
-
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
-
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
-
A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
-
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
-
When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
-
I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
-
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
-
I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
-
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
-
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
-
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
-
I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
-
I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
-
I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.
-
There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times.
-
If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
-
The job of automobile manufacturers is to passionately build something that others love to own.
-
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'
