Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Waits

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

Steve Martin

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

Steve Carell

I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

Stephen Holmes

Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.

Stendhal

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Kendrick Lamar

The one in front of the gun lives forever

Ralph Ellison

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Ralph Fiennes

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

Rainn Wilson

I am all for controlling guns.

James McBride

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.

James Monroe

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed

James Madison

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

James Madison

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

Stephen Colbert

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?

Stephen Colbert

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Tim Walz

I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Thomas Jefferson

All power is inherent in the people.

Thomas Jefferson

I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.

Rose McGowan

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

Rick Riordan

Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.

Raymond Chandler

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

Raymond Chandler

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

Raymond Chandler

Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

Veronica Roth

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?

Veronica Roth

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

Veronica Roth

Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.

Veronica Roth

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

Vince Vaughn

It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Vince Vaughn

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

Maggie Q

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

Maggie Q

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

Mackenzie Astin

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!