Earp Quotes

#1. That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

Wyatt Earp

#2. I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Roland Joffe

#3. Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Gene Hackman

#4. It was a quiet day in Tombstone.

Larry McMurtry

#5. The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.

William Anthony Donohue

#6. Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.

Wyatt Earp

#7. Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.
"Suppose . . ." he began. "Suppose . . ."
Then he moved on, one last time.

Mary Doria Russell

#8. I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

Morgan Earp

#9. Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Wyatt Earp

#10. Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.

Wyatt Earp

#11. Look at all the stars. You look up and you think,
'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

Morgan Earp

#12. My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!

Wyatt Earp

#13. No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

Pat Buchanan

#14. Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

#15. We belong to the race that knows Joseph

L.M. Montgomery

#16. The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

Wyatt Earp

#17. Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Wyatt Earp

#18. Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Lauryn Hill

#19. Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.

Cass Sunstein

#20. No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

Wyatt Earp

#21. Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said.
"You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

Larry McMurtry