Best Gunslinger Quotes

#1. The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

Kieran Bew

#2. I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.

Stephen King

#3. for the first time in months or years the gunslinger could see real, living green.

Stephen King

#4. The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

Stephen King

#5. For Gilead and the Calla!" he roared. "Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!

Stephen King

#6. They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Stephen King

#7. On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

#8. I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

George R R Martin

#9. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

#10. Would you kill all your answers so easily, gunslinger?

Stephen King

#11. She wanted to savor him slowly like a lemon cream pie on a lazy summer day. One bite at a time.

Sandra Jones

#12. If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Charles Mingus

#13. Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.

Stephen King

#14. I Cry your pardon." ~ The Gunslinger

Stephen King

#15. Beg your pardon,' the gunslinger said. 'I was wool-gathering.

Stephen King

#16. Why am I here?" Jake asked. "Why did I forget everything from before?" "Because the man in black has drawn you here," the gunslinger said. "And because of the Tower. The Tower stands at a kind of . . . power-nexus. In time." "I don't understand that!

Stephen King

#17. The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change.

Stephen King

#18. The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

#19. We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.

Stephen King

#20. Huh? What did I promise?"
"Fowevew," he said with a nod, like it was final.
"Exactly."
We stared at each other, and it reminded me of my first day, when he stared me down like a mute gunslinger.

Amber L. Johnson

#21. A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Stephen King

#22. The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future.

Stephen King

#23. Time is a thief of memory

Stephen King

#24. We all die in time," the gunslinger said. "It's not just the world that moves on.

Stephen King

#25. At first everything went according to plan and they called it ka. When things began going wrong and the dying started, they called that ka, too. Ka, the gunslinger could have told them, was often the last thing you had to rise above.

Stephen King

#26. The hawk does not fear you, boy, and the hawk never will. The hawk is God's gunslinger.

Stephen King

#27. Death, but not for you, gunslinger.

Stephen King

#28. Fred Rice, gunslinger, badest hombre ever to grace the American Southwest desert since Pancho Villa.

Anonymous

#29. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.

Stephen King

#30. They are as they are because they live in the light, the gunslinger thought suddenly. That light of civilization you were taught to adore above all other things. They live in a world which has not moved on.

Stephen King

#31. The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

#32. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

Stephen King