Cogburn Quotes

#1. MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Charles Portis

#2. That is the way of it. - Rooster Cogburn

Charles Portis

#3. You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?"
"I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Charles Portis

#4. One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Clive Sinclair

#5. White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Theophile Gautier

#6. As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Edward Witten

#7. Long after you go down
and the vessel rusts apart

your bones sunken
buried in the ocean floor

I wonder if you miss people?

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

#8. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

John Piper

#9. I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

Jenna Blum

#10. There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Steven Spielberg

#11. I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

Edmund Hillary

#12. When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

Watchman Nee

#13. To be honest, it would be nice if love, and sex, and duty, and fidelity, all managed to happen at once, but for me they never seemed to line up.

Marshall Thornton