Thought exercise

[Ysabel Kid]

I usually start each day with a three-mile walk on the treadmill to warm up and stretch before work. Helps me get through my day. Also gives me a chance to watch a lot of things that my wife may not be interested in (anything Sci-Fi), or not as interested in as me (re-watching old westerns). Last week I decided to finally watch the 3+ hour move, “The Seven Samurai”. It was great, subtitles and all. Then I watched “The Magnificent Seven”, the 1960 original. Finally, I watched the remake of “The Magnificent Seven” from 2016 (hard to believe that movie is already 7 years old). This was spread out over the whole week. What fun!

The original “Magnificent Seven” has one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. From Vin (Steve McQueen) to Caldera (Eli Wallach), “We deal in lead, friend”. This got me thinking. What is the best line in every western or from every western star in any of their movies.

These quickly came to mind:

Steve McQueen in ”The Magnificent Seven”: “We deal in lead, friend”
John Way in ”True Grit”: “Fill your hands you sorry so-and-so!”
Clint Eastwood in “The Outlaw Josey Wales”: “Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?”
Val Kilmer in “Tombstone”: “I’m your huckleberry”
Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”: “Can I move?”

[JimT]

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
John Wayne in The Shootist

[GunnyMack]

I'm fond of 3 lines from Jeremiah Johnson
Can you skin griz pilgrim
Elk don't know how many feet a horse has
Watch yer top knot- one of my best buds and I still sing off with watch yer top knot.

[765x53]

Val Kilmer, Tombstone : "Nonsense, By all means, move."
Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry: " You don't listen. Do you ***-hole?

[gamekeeper]

John Wayne
: You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. Saw a ranch house burnin' last night.
Stagecoach 1939.

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[OldWin]

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

Tuco. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

[4t5]

"Said I never had much use for one,never said I didn't know how to use it"
Tom Selleck as Mathew Quigley in Quigley down under.
I'd call it a Western in Australia.

[Griff]

"I hate a man that talks rude... I won't tolerate it." Woodrow Call, "Lonesome Dove".

[Woodsloafer2]

Second on the Quigley Down Under one....

Charles Bronson in the beginning of Once Upon A Time in the West "you brought two to many"

[.45colt]

One of My favorite lines...Lucky Ned Pepper....True Grit.
" I never busted a cap on a woman or anybody much under sixteen. But it's enough that you know that I'll do what I have to do.".......... how many people knew what the Hell He was talking about. ? I can watch that scene over and over. .

[RIDERED350r]

"You tell em I'm coming, and hell's comin with me you hear??!! HELL'S COMIN WITH ME!" Kurt Russel-Wyatt Earp- Tombstone

"Lady, you're about a half a bubble off plum, that's for sure and for certain". Tom Selleck-Matthew Quigley

Another from Mr. Quigley: "We already run the misfits outta our country.....sent em back to England"

Love Quigley Down Under.

[RIDERED350r]

Here's a sci-fi one for ya.

"I'll be in my bunk".

Take a guess??

[Ysabel Kid]

"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
John Wayne in The Shootist

Even better!

[Ysabel Kid]

Here's a sci-fi one for ya.

"I'll be in my bunk".

Take a guess??

"Aliens"?

[RIDERED350r]

Another good one from the same show..

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another."

Show was Firefly. Great show

[765x53]

Firefly, a great western series, even if it is in space. "If somebody tries to kill you, you kill them right back."
The only sci-fi worth bothering with.

[RIDERED350r]

Firefly, a great western series, even if it is in space. "If somebody tries to kill you, you kill them right back."
The only sci-fi worth bothering with.

Yep, definitely a different twist on futuristic sci-fi. I really enjoyed that show.

"I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you".

Lot of good nuggets from that one episode alone

[Gobblerforge]

Outlaw Josie Wales river ferryman. In my line of work you either have to sing The Battle Hyme of the Republic, or Dixie, with equal enthusiasm.

[AJMD429]

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"Dyin' ain't much of a livin'...". Josey Wales

[AJMD429]

Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry: " You don't listen. Do you ***-hole?

That one movie alone has some of the best one-liners...

Add the other Dirty Harry series to that one and you get a whole book full of great lines...

[Nath]

Wales says, " worms gotta eat...."!
Oh and the scene when he gobs on the dog