Pistols Quotes - Page 4

• Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

  Richard Hell

  Sex, Perfect, Made

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• Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic

  Marie Lu

  June, Faces, Remember

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• What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Skirts, Reason, Easier

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.13, Penguin

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• How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

  Tupac Shakur

  Broken, Smoking, Unanswered Questions

  Song: The Streetz R Deathrow, 1993

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• When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

  Stephen Hawking

  Cat, Science

  "The Whole Shebang". Book by Timothy Ferris, 1998.

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• I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

  Tupac Shakur

  Prayer, Rapper, Vision

  Song: Only Fear of Death, 1997

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• No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Hands, Years

  Song: Heartz of Men

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• The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Air, Gunpowder, Answers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

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• I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

  Colin Greenwood

  Gun, Use, Half

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• Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

  Sam Mussabini

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

  Hermann Goring

  History, Police, Nazism

  Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler “Germany REBORN”, freedom

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• If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Writing, Firsts

  "Chekhov at 150: brilliance in brief" by Jake Wallis Simons, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it at hand to meet situations that you do not anticipate. If you have the luxury of anticipating a lethal encounter, you pick up a long arm, either a rifle or a shotgun, but in that case you go on to the attack. Thus rifle shooting is offensive, and pistol shooting is defensive. Of course, life does not always duplicate theory, and there are exceptions to everything, but nevertheless the rifle is not a defensive weapon in concept.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Luxury

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• A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Army, Glasses

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Fire, Guy

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• Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

  Mae West

  Home, Sassy, Police

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• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere.
  They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed,
  Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough.
  A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.'
  I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow.
  You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee;
  Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  KRS-One

  Rap, Gun, Cities

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• They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hip Hop, Paper

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• Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Rooms, Dressings

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• The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Gun, Purpose

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• It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Coffee, Verbs

  Philip Pullman (2008). “The Tin Princess”, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Guitar, Musician

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
  may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Music, Humor

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