#cannon

I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken." Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#love #ship-forever-shipping #love

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#cannon #else #hate #i #nothing

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bring #business #cannon #chicago #could

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that! ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#been #booth #cannon #career #cause

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#deal #echo #great #great deal #kiss

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point. ↗

— Monica Keena

#be prepared #cannon #disagree #good #good way

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#cannons #like #lot #me #people

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances