Bullets Quotes - Page 6

• I can dodge bullets, baby!

  Phil Hellmuth

  Baby, Dodge, I Can

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• I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kings, Powerful, Grandma

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Apr 23, 2015

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• If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Pain, Gun

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• I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

  Robert B. Parker

  Would Be, Harm, Be Careful

  "Promised Land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.

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• I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Two, Style, Massage

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• You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Gun, Men

  Markus Zusak (2015). “I Am the Messenger”, p.153, Random House

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• Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

  Walter Scott

  Heaven, Knows

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.718

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• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Adversity, Fire

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

  Michael Douglas

  Political, Arms, Flow

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• There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

  Delroy Lindo

  Prayer, War, Hands

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• My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Goal, Magic

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Peaceful, Appeals

  United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

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• Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

  George Downame

  Temptation, Unseen, Affliction

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• We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

  Anna Politkovskaya

  Dog, Ignorance, Special

  "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.

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• While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.

  Antanas Mockus

  Believe, Heart, Use

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• The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

  Amado V. Hernandez

  Rose, Miracle, Mind

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• Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Confusion

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• That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Play, World

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• The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Baseball

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• Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Lists, Remember

  "Storytelling That Moves People". Interview with Bronwyn Fryer, hbr.org. June 2003.

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• The bullets are useless! And it's dilating!

  Whit Bissell

  Useless

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• I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

  Jay Kay

  Travel, Moving, Might

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• Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Time, Men, Soul

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• My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

  Jimmy Carter

  Accomplishment, Bombs, Shots

  Former President Jimmy Carter address to the students and community members at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, February 16, 2011.

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