Jim Bowie Quotes

That night, when SanJuanna had cleared the main course and brought dessert in, my mother called for quiet and said, "Boys, I have an announcement to make. Your sister made the apple pies tonight. I'm sure we will all enjoy them very much." "Can I learn how, ma'am?" said Jim Bowie. "No, J.B. Boys don't bake pies," Mother said. "Why not?" he said. "They have wives who make pies for them." "But I don't have a wife." "Darling, I'm sure you will have a very nice one someday when you're older, and she'll make you many pies. Calpurnia, would you care to serve?" Was there any way I could have a wife, too? I wondered as I cut through the browned C and promptly shattered the entire crust.

As one, the able-bodied men stepped forth; Jim Bowie, despite his fevered state, requested that he be helped across. Just one man remained behind; he was permitted to depart. He would survive to recount this story.23

The London press often regaled readers with hair-raising stories from California and other western parts of America, and Colt’s guns were regularly featured in these. “Scarcely a week passes,” reported one London paper, “without some dispute, when revolvers and bowie-knives are immediately produced and someone is killed.” Stories of shoot-outs were not only entertaining, they confirmed what many in Britain thought about Americans, which is that they lived under barely civilized conditions in bullet-peppered air. Colt’s revolver fit perfectly into this portrait.

Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose.

Even American hero Jim Bowie participated in illegal slaving,

I bark at no man's bid.  I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the White House no matter who he is.

Ziggy was David’s homage to the outsider; the main inspiration was undoubtedly Iggy, the singer with whom David was obsessed and whose doomed, Dionysian career path had already built its own mythology. David was well aware that Iggy, too, was a mere creation—for in their first meeting, David had learned the scary, gold-and-glitter-spattered facade hid another persona—the urbane Jim Osterberg, who was disconcertingly reminiscent of Jimmy Stewart.

HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS, n. Teenagers who are often too curious to stay in school. Notable ones include Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, Amancio Ortega, Ingvar Kamprad, John D. Rockefeller, Quentin Tarantino, Katy Perry, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Jay-Z, Marlon Brando, Christina Aguilera, John Travolta, Courtney Love, Chris Rock, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Eminem, David Bowie, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kurt Cobain, Mark Wahlberg, Uma Thurman, Seth Rogan, Ray Charles, Al Pacino, Daniel Radcliffe, Diana (Princess of Wales), Robert De Niro, Phil Collins, George Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Kevin Bacon, and many more.

I never thought Nikki Sixx would live beyond the third Mötley Crüe album. People like me, Bowie and Elton John were professional abusers but Nikki went further than us–he used needles, which we never dared to do. I knew Jim Morrison well and Nikki reminded me a lot of him. When Jim died at twenty-seven, we weren’t shocked because he had died; we were shocked that he had got that far in the first place. —Alice Cooper