West Quotes

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

The West has political prisoners.

As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.

If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde ways like radical Islam.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

In the West, you take people at their word.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

A lot of people have strong beliefs, but they don't have the confidence to really stick to them. I really respect Kanye [West] for that.

Kanye [West] is the hardest person to buy something for.

I think Kanye West gets really annoyed because I just hate fittings. I'll just be like,"Ah, I can't find something to wear."

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a big book of analogies.They always make me laugh.