western quotes

   U.S.A. is the slice of a continent.U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in bya Western Union boy on a black-board, a publiclibrary full of old newspapers and dogeared historybooks with protests scrawled in the margins in pencil.U.S.A. is the world's greatest rivervalley fringed with mountains and hills.U.S.A. is a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bankaccounts.U.S.A. is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery.U.S.A. is the letters at theend of anaddresswhenyouareaway from home.But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people

-John Roderigo Dos Passos
  U.S. A.,'U.S. A.' (new prologue to collected trilogy).

The English have Shakespeare, the Russians have Chekhov, the French Molie'  re but we have the western.

- Robert Duvall
  In the Sunday Times, 21 Mar.

Now, our music is universal. It shares the rhythmic content of African music, music of the Western Hemisphere and various lands of the East, and has merged this rhythm with European harmonies, the soul of the slaves, the blues, and the spirituals to create jazz.

- Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie
  Dizzy ^ To Be Or Not To Bop (with  Al Fraser),'Evolutions'.

ImWesten nichts Neues. All Quiet on the Western Front.

- Erich Maria Remarque
  Title of novel.

I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups† Literary intellectuals at one poleat the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  TheTwo Cultures, Rede Lecture.

   Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.3, added song, stanzas1^2.

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).