High Noon Quotes

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

I expect a kiss-my-ass-at-high-noon-in-Macy's-window loyalty.

Are there any limitations? Are they going to allow fornication in Times Square at high noon?

We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

Let cannon and bell at high noon call the people from sport or study or toil, to reflection on that great life so nobly lived. Let the universal display from tenement to State House of the flag of the United States of America remind the people that our country is the United States because of Abraham Lincoln.

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

Officials of government who commit criminal acts or who violate their oath of office... shall be removed by the posse to the most populated intersection of streets in the township and, at high noon, be hung by the neck, the body remaining until sundown as an example to those who would subvert the law.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I've been raped in Macy's window at high noon.

New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.