Craig Johnson > Quotes

“The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."
I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“It is another beautiful evening here at the Red Pony bar and continual soirée, how can I help you?”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I don’t know what the exact physical dynamics are that cause a shower curtain to attach itself to your body when you turn on the water but, since my shower was surrounded on all sides by curtains, I turned on the water and became a vinyl, vacuum-sealed sheriff burrito.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I sometimes forgot about how spiritual Henry was. I had been raised as a Methodist where the highest sacrament was the bake sale.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.”
― Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse

“...cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. "Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day." I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.”
― Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse

“It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.”
― Craig Johnson, Another Man's Moccasins

“Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.”
― Craig Johnson, Kindness Goes Unpunished

“Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB”
― Craig Johnson, The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volume 1-4

“She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.”
― Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs

“Stay calm, have courage, and watch for signs.”
― Craig Johnson, As The Crow Flies

“I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.”
― Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth

“He had his mother’s looks, his father’s temper, and nobody’s brains.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“famous quote from the Lakota chief Red Cloud states that men do that which is difficult while women do that which is impossible.”
― Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand

“Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire”
― Craig Johnson

“It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.”
― Craig Johnson

“I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.”
― Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish

“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.”
― Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand

“He looked at me. “If I were a creek, I would be where the ground slopes.”

“Right.” Sometimes it was good to have an Indian scout.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company