Best Gunsmoke Quotes

#1. The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

William Wordsworth

#2. I will not take 'but' for an answer.

Langston Hughes

#3. I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

Ken Curtis

#4. In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

Ron Barber

#5. I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Ken Curtis

#6. There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

John Saxon

#7. My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Wallace Shawn

#8. By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled ...
Nothing of this sort happened.

B.M. Bower

#9. Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Suze Orman

#10. Everything in the world's got a voice; most people don't hear hard enough is all. Sunrise sounds like slow chords dripping from my guitar this morning. Sad chords, in B-flat.

Cath Crowley

#11. Our gazes struck like flint and steel. And I realized that gunsmoke smell wasn't ozone. It was us. We burned.

Leah Raeder

#12. I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

Sean Astin

#13. never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

Rocky Carroll

#15. Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.

Mikko Hypponen

#16. I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

Kurt Loder

#17. I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'

Suzanne Pleshette

#18. Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful."
"Thankful for what?" said Tiffany.
"That I'll get dry later.

Terry Pratchett

#19. What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

James Arness

#20. I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

Eartha Kitt

#21. A cicada whines,
his voice
Starting to drown through the rainy world,
No ripple of wind,
no sound but his song of black wings,
No song but the song of his black wings.
Such emptiness at the heart,
such emptiness at the heart of being,

Charles Wright

#22. Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

Dennis Weaver