#bullets

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

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bullets #compared #dodging #dungeons #famine

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#description #fact #general #had #identified

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#bullets #country #down #everyone #fact

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

— Joseph Conrad

#carries #deals #destruction #far #flying

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullets #peaceful #rightful #successors

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bloody #bullets #give #necessary #only

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#carpenter #end #first #get #halloween