Source: Iron Kissed
Quotes about cowboy
A collection of quotes on the topic of cowboy, likeness, time, timing.
Quotes about cowboy

“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”
January 1886, in a campaign speech given in New York https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
1880s

"The Mustard magazine interview" (January 2005)
Context: Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Interview with The Times (7 April 1981), p. 12.

Song I'm an old Cowhand
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 17 “The Lost Entradas” (p. 181)

“I have seen cowboy bebop, Jojo, food wars and tanya evil”
13 May 2017 http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-992031/barron-trump-is-an-anime-fan

Goel, S. R. (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India.

John R. Erickson on the discipline of writing, the world of publishing, and (of course) dogs http://www.lonestarliterary.com/john-r.-erickson-061415.html (June 14, 2015)

Rodeo, written by Larry Bastian.
Song lyrics, Ropin' the Wind (1991)

Hugo Chávez criticizes George W. Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television (August 31, 2005). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9150860/
2005

Apple Pay: No, Not Everyone Wants It http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229553 in The Market Ticker (1 November 2014)

The Search for Truth (1934), p. 191

IGN, March 30, 2006 - about his role in Killshot

Shelley Jackson, in: Shelley Jackson talks with Vito Acconci http://www.believermag.com/issues/200612/?read=interview_acconci, in: The Believer, Nr. 12. 2006.

Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
"Are videotaped beheadings covered by Geneva?" (20 September 2006) http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-09-20.html.
2006

As quoted in I Hate Ann Coulter! (2006) by Unanimous, p. 66.
2006
“how do i get cowboy paint off a dog.”
[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/2299229204]
Tweets by year, 2009

Goel, S. R. (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India.
Part II, Chapter 5.4; 8-year-old Chris considering the time-travellers' strategy for catching them
Lightning (1988)

Source: Road to Revolution: Communist Guerilla Warfare in the U.S.A. (1967), pp. 3-4

10:30 PM - 22 Jul 09 http://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/2784657909
On Twitter
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

Charlotte Higgins, "It was 37 years ago today – and Sgt Pepper cover has still failed to pay", http://www.guardian.co.uk/thebeatles/story/0,,1230411,00.html The Guardian, 2004-06-03
On his painting, Marcel Duchamp's World Tour.
Art

I Love This Bar, written with Scotty Emerick
Song lyrics, Shock'n Y'all (2003)

Source: The New Left: The Resurgence of Radicalism Among American Students (1966), p. 44

“I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.”
Tom Orsborn (July 27, 2008) "Owens one happy camper", San Antonio Express-News, p. 01C.

Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Song lyrics, The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)

Should've Been a Cowboy.
Song lyrics, Toby Keith (1993)
The Dude Ranch http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#DUDE, st. 1.
Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#outbk (1917)

“We are not the cowboys anymore — we are just the idiots this year”
Statement about the Boston Red Sox being just "idiots" out to rewrite history. This was before the playoff games in which they overcame a 0-3 game deficit against the New York Yankees, to win a record 8 straight post-season games, ending with a shut-out of the St. Louis Cardinals, and winning their first World Series since 1918; as quoted in "Damon Says Red Sox are 'Idiots' at MSNBC (6 October 2004) http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6193582/
Context: We are not the cowboys anymore — we are just the idiots this year … So we are going to go out and try to swing the bats, find the holes, and, hopefully, good things happen. … We were just a bunch of cowboys out there last year, just enjoying every minute … Now, we know we have something to prove. We don’t want to be remembered as a team that, OK, we keep making it to the playoffs, but we keep having tough losses. … I mean, we want to be known as a team that rewrites the history books. … This is definitely the best ballclub I’ve been on. I mean, that Oakland ballclub in 2001 was pretty awesome. We were a bunch of frat boys there. This team is a little older, but we have that same attitude. We feel like we can win every game, we feel like we like to have fun, and I think that’s why this team is liked by so many people out there. … You know, the kids watching us out there — we’ve got the long hair, we’ve got the cornrows, we got just guys acting like idiots. And I think the fans out there like it.

Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915-1965 (1972), p. 63-64
Context: At about the age of eleven, I was reading the thrillers of Sax Rohmer and Edgar Wallace concerning Dr. Fu Manchu and other sophisticated Chinese villains, nurturing a secret admiration for these gentlemen because of their opposition to the suet-pudding heroism of our own culture, and because of their refined and mysterious style of life. While other boys dreamed of becoming generals, cowboys, mountain climbers, explorers, and engineers, I wanted to be a Chinese villain. I wanted servants carrying knives in their sleeves, appearing or vanishing without the slightest sound. I wanted a house with secret doors and passages, with Coromandel screens, with ancient scrolls, with ivory and lacquer boxes of exotic poisons, with exquisite brands of tea, with delicate blue porcelain, with jade idols and joss-sticks, and with sonorous gongs.

Source: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963), p.231

from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
Source: Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/the_united_states_of_america_has (25 December 2020)