Headed West Quotes

#1. Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

Joy Hakim

#2. Her shadow crossed the dunes, smaller now. Ahead lay the south desert, limitless. Soon she turned slowly, with the sun swinging across the port wing-tip, and headed west as they had planned.

Elleston Trevor

#3. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Shana Alexander

#4. She only wears black now and she's umm; well she's threatening to become a vampire.

Guy Portman

#5. India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

Baba Kalyani

#6. When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

John Hawkes

#7. Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

Daniel Barenboim

#8. Fix things before they get too big for fixing.

Linda Urban

#9. 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Jacob K. Javits

#10. Freedom is not given - it is taken.

Subhas Chandra Bose

#11. I headed straight into the setting sun, and rode west at an easy pace. It was going to be a long ride, and there was no reason to hurry.

Robert B. Parker

#12. We are afraid of the old age which we may never attain.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. The sun burned like a fire ship on the water, sinking slowly till only a red smoke was left trailing up the sky. A fishing boat was headed into the harbor, black and small against the enormous west. Above its glittering wake a few gulls whirled like sparks which had gone out.

Ross Macdonald

#14. . . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

Kim Gordon

#15. I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants.

Willie Geist

#16. At age thirty-six, with a bad case of acid reflux, chronic cynicism, and acute burnout, Charlie Crawford had packed up his Upper West Side apartment and headed down to the Sunshine State. He

Tom Turner

#17. Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.

R.K. Narayan

#18. If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Ted Williams

#19. The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

Allen West

#21. We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait.

Kanye West