Top 79 Gunslinger Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gunslinger

#1. My teen-beat afternoon clarified everything for me. I had to get back to where I was who I was, a son of New Jersey, gunslinger, bar band king, small-town local hero, big fish in a little pond and breadwinner. Right

Bruce Springsteen

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

Stephen King

#3. Hey gunslinger... nice shot.

James O'Barr

#4. I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

Edge

#5. His hands had dropped to the worn butts of his guns. "Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever.

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#6. One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.

John Allen Paulos

#7. An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never - ever - tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.

Michael Scott

#8. The gunslinger nodded amiably.

Stephen King

#9. The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it.

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#10. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.

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#11. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.

Stephen King

#12. I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking away from his last fight, determined to make it outside before I broke into a million pieces, I almost made it too.

Rob Grimes

#13. What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger! the man in black laughed.

Stephen King

#14. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger

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#15. When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.

Josh Duhamel

#16. Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures.

Eoin Colfer

#17. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.

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#18. It didn't occur to her that this was an amazing piece of shooting, especially with a pistol; she was a gunslinger, after all, and shooting was her business. Besides,

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#19. Sure. Knock yourself out." "I don't understand you." "Do what you want." "Ah." The gunslinger nodded and lay back. Knock myself out, he thought. Knock. Myself out.

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#20. The gunslinger occasionally moaned with the wind. The stars were as indifferent to this as they were to wars, crucifixions, resurrections.

Stephen King

#21. I denied Discordia and regret nothing; I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice; I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice.

Stephen King

#22. Such lack of understanding was frightening. He's right, the gunslinger thought. We are broken. Gods help us.

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#23. I've walked the yellow brick road with Dorothy. Sneaked through the mines of Moria with the fellowship, conquered the known world with Alexander the great, climbed atop the tower with the last gunslinger and revelled as Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord, all through this chest...

Jon Degnan

#24. Was it pretty? Your country ... your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

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#25. Do you see how little it all matters? How quickly and easily I can take it all away, should I choose to do so? Beware, gunslinger! Beware, shaman! The abyss is all around you. You float or fall into it at my whim.

Stephen King

#26. 'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

Katie Hafner

#27. You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.

John Jackson Miller

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

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#29. TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#30. 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

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

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#32. 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

#33. 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.

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#34. 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.

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

Anonymous

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

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

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#38. 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.

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

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#40. 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.

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

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#42. 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

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

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#44. 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.

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#45. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.

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#46. Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready.

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#47. Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

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#48. Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?

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#49. 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!

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

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

Charles Mingus

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

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#53. 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

#54. 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

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

Stephen King

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

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#57. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

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#58. May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

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#59. They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

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#60. A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

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#61. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.

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#62. And still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling - over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

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#63. There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

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#64. Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

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#65. Jamie DeCurry had once proclaimed that Roland could shoot blindfolded, because he had eyes in his fingers.

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#66. Gracious, I must be the luckiest drunk who ever floated the Arkansas River, or ---" he bowed slightly to the ladies, offering his warmest grin, "--- is this Heaven?

Sandra Jones

#67. Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

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#68. Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world

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#69. Once again there was the desert, and that only.

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#70. There will be water if God wills it.

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#71. The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie

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#72. 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.

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