Quotes About Calamity Jane

#1. We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

Gene Wolfe

#2. I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

Emily Rose

#3. The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

Calamity Jane

#4. what I like and what I need's two different things.

J.D. Jordan

#5. Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Calamity Jane

#6. Ain't nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

J.D. Jordan

#7. wasn't no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

J.D. Jordan

#8. By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

Calamity Jane

#9. But tell you true, I honestly didn't think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world's full of them.

J.D. Jordan

#10. We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Calamity Jane

#11. During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

Calamity Jane

#12. The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying?

J.D. Jordan

#13. Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Calamity Jane

#14. Jeb didn't say nothing. Didn't smile none, neither. Didn't even move except for the color running right out of him.

J.D. Jordan

#15. I tell you, mister, if there's anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it's knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they're the same ones what get your own back up.

J.D. Jordan

#16. Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.

J.D. Jordan

#17. I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

Calamity Jane

#18. No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.

J.D. Jordan

#19. I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Calamity Jane

#20. Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

J.D. Jordan

#21. Ain't no good ever comes of it, if you ain't steering yourself.

J.D. Jordan

#22. Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

J.D. Jordan

#23. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.

J.D. Jordan

#24. On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

Calamity Jane

#25. That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn't help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn't felt like that in a long while.

J.D. Jordan

#26. As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

Calamity Jane

#27. We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

Calamity Jane

#28. When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Calamity Jane

#29. I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

Calamity Jane

#30. It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Calamity Jane

#31. Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

J.D. Jordan

#32. Targets come big, he said. Time comes small.

J.D. Jordan

#33. not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.

J.D. Jordan

#34. While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Calamity Jane

#35. Don't matter none how bad it gets sometimes. You can always turn this shit around.

J.D. Jordan

#36. I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

Calamity Jane

#37. Maybe I'd lost something. Maybe I'd lost a lot - more, even, than I could suffer - but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn't no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

J.D. Jordan

#38. I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

Calamity Jane

#39. I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain't no trouble of his what ain't trouble of mine, too.

J.D. Jordan

#40. And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn't be enough.

J.D. Jordan

#41. But wasn't time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

J.D. Jordan