Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Paulsen

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

Philip Smith

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

John Scalzi

Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

John Piper

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

Martin McGuinness

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

Martin McGuinness

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Martin McGuinness

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Nick Lowe

It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

Nick Cave

Hamlet got a gun now.

Nick Cave

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

Nick Cave

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

Nicholas Pileggi

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide, but I didn't. I gotta admit the truth: It turned me on.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Penn Jillette

Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

Marjane Satrapi

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.

Sherwood Anderson

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)

Niger Innis

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

Niger Innis

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

Niger Innis

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

Nora Roberts

She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.

Miranda Lambert

I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.

John Yarmuth

...I will not be silent any longer.

Mark Leyner

You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.

Mark Levin

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

Marilyn Manson

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

Marilyn Manson

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

Mads Mikkelsen

I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.

Michael Buble

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Michael Caine

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

Michael Moore

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Michael Gambon

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Michael Grant

Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.