Wagons Quotes

• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Live
  • War
  • Science

• As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Dad
  • Dog
  • Meat

• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fighting
  • Army
  • Labor

• This was the Mecca of the American Dream, the world that everyone wanted. A world of sleek young women (allied with Slenderella to be so) in shorts and halters, driving 400-horsepower station wagons to air-conditioned, music-serenaded supermarkets of baby-sitter corporations and culture condensed into Great Books discussion groups. A life of barbecues by the swimming pool and drive in movies open all year. It did't appeal to me. Fuck health insurance plans and life insurance. They wanted to live without leaving the womb. It made me more alive to play a game without rules against society, and I was prepared to play it to the end. A tremor almost sexual passed through me as I anticipated the comming robbery.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Women
  • Game
  • Play

• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Tennessee
  • Wagons
  • Mules

• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Miserable
  • Harm
  • Irreparable