#gun

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. ↗

— Truman Capote

#i #just #noisy #shotgun #tall

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elements #great #gun #modern #modern civilization

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#all-time #answer #ask #book #different

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#make #men #real #tall #use

I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse? ↗

— David Carradine

#could #did #fire #gets #going

When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#around #certain #effect #feel #get

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#am #cover #extreme #fate #gun

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#guns #more #need #planes #policemen

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#guns #stick #you #your

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully