Gun Quotes (page 15)

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• determination
• end

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on. Alfred Hitchcock

• powerful
• power
• political

Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun... Mao Zedong

• great
• greatness
• may

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. Patrick Henry

• fitness
• earth
• heart

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it. Henry Miller

• saying
• brain
• painting

No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really. Chuck Palahniuk

• yours
• speaks

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. Chuck Palahniuk

• hamlet
• guns
• now

Hamlet got a gun now. Nick Cave

• good
• goodness
• goods

As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can. Janet Evanovich

• choose
• acceptance
• time

The single word that counted on Wednesday was the one that came from the muzzle of a gun, addressed to somebody on their knees. Better to choose our hour than to accept this. We know each other. We've known each other from the time of Crocodilopolis. [Letter unsent] John Berger

• work
• got
• workings

You got a gun, you don't have to work out. Chris Rock

• him
• manly
• somebody

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun. Dashiell Hammett

• drawing
• she
• time

Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock. Janet Evanovich

• people
• work
• physics

And then I was offered the job of a particle in factory physics. I was offered the job of an electron in an office atom. I was offered the job of a frequency for a radio station. People told me I could easily make it as a ray in a ray gun. What's the matter with you, don't you want to do well? I wanted to be a beach bum and work on my wave function. I have always loved the sea. Jeanette Winterson

• men
• thinking
• innocent

You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders. Chris Rock

• pride
• crying
• die

I am banished from the patient men who fight. They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to aching shoulder, side by side, They trudged away from life's broad wealds of light. Their wrongs were mine; and ever in my sight. They went arrayed in honour. But they died,--Not one by one: and mutinous I cried. To those who sent them out into the night. The darkness tells how vainly I have striven. To free them from the pit where they must dwell. In outcast gloom convulsed and jagged and... Siegfried Sassoon