Sam Figura > Sam's Quotes

“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
― Louis L'Amour

“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”
― Louis L'Amour

“It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.”
― Betty White, If You Ask Me

“The good thing about being old is not being young.”
― Stephen Richards

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”
― John Wayne

“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.”
― John Wayne

“Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.”
― John Wayne

“My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”
― John Wayne

“Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.”
― John Wayne

“All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.”
― John Wayne

“A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”
― John Wayne

“We’re burnin’ daylight.”
― John Wayne

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were
selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
― John Wayne

“I've loved reading all my life.”
― John Wayne

“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady -- but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy.”
― John Wayne

“Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.”
― John Wayne

“Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?”
― John Wayne

“Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.”
― John Wayne

“There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.”
― John Wayne

“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

- J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel”
― John Wayne

“A man oughta do what he thinks is best.”
― John Wayne

“Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.”
― John Wayne

“Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of.”
― John Wayne

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft