#pistol

Words are loaded pistols. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#pistols #words

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#boxes #carry #cartridge #cartridges #grub

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#change #change the world #critics #early #failed

Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#love #meteorology #love

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#common #common sense #intellectuals #many #pistol

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#done #i #into #know #like

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#carried #eat #pistols #worms

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#another #around #carry #committed #crime

Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner. ↗

— Cassandra Krivy Hirsch

#historical-novel #journal #romance #victorian-era #historical-romance

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#john-watson #pistol-practice #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes