#bullet

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

#arts #bullets #music #paint #painting

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. ↗

— Stuart Haddon

#history #scotland #short-story #the-bullet-in-the-box #family

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact. ↗

— Joe Hill

#life #life

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#memories #metaphor #pain #tears

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#shoes #them #welcome #will

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bin #blood #bullet #ceiling #could

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#bullets #compared #hot #lead #metal

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#deeds #gun #heaven #target #thoughts

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#carries #deals #destruction #far #flying

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#back #bridle #broke #brought #bullet