#bull

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? ↗

— Otto Dix

#beside #bullet #dead #directly #experience

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#because #blend #bullied #did #get

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#among #anticipation #bullets #direction #every

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#being #bulldog #family #golf #golf tournament

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#bulldoze #california #desert #discovering #environmentalist

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. ↗

— James Buchan

#bits #bulls #crash #dust #dutch

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#almost #am #back #board #bull

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#bully #capitalism #i #i think #obama

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bullet #come #dice #go #hear