Gun Quotes - Page 39

• Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

  Dick Cheney

  Real, Men, Knows

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• We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

  Harold Evans

  Reading, Jazz, Online

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Two, Wire

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

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• If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

  Philip Smith

  Should Have, Community, African American

  "Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief's call to arms" by Perry Chiaramonte, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Hollywood

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• The keys to America: The cross, the brew, the dollar, and the gun.

  George Carlin

  Keys, America, Dollars

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Chinese, Paper, Taught

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Water, Lines

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• One of the most powerful ways to keep people controlled is to use faith or guns or both.

  Nikolaj Arcel

  Powerful, People, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

  Robert Loggia

  Fashion, Guy, Needs

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

  Snoop Dogg

  Philosophy, Cutting, Dope

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• Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

  Rand Paul

  California, President, Regulation

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Revenge, Men, Hands

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• I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

  Rand Paul

  Real, People, Pay

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.

  Clark Gregg

  Thinking, Gnarly, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at Paris, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered. If you look at what happened in California, they didn't have guns, they were slaughtered. They could've protected themselves if they had guns.

  Dalia Mogahed

  California, Paris, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Talking, Law, Care

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

  Chuck Todd

  Thinking, May, Argument

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

  Elvis Presley

  Guitar, Rock And Roll

  Song: King Creole

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• A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

  Henry Rollins

  Revenge, Hands, Target

  Song: Civilized

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• The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Doors, British

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• Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Running, Dancing, Shells

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Sympathy, Real, Rap

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

  Tim LaHaye

  Revenge, Men, Order

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• The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Ak 47, Machines

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