Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michio Kaku

If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.

Michio Kaku

A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

Lyle Lovett

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

Luke Scott

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

Luke Scott

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

Luke Scott

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

Louis L'Amour

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

Louis L'Amour

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Louis L'Amour

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

Louis L'Amour

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Lorna Luft

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off

Michael D. Barnes

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Michael D. Barnes

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Mehmet Oz

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Michael Rooker

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

Patrick Leahy

Let's let the Senate run this and not the gun lobbies run this Senate chamber.

Charles Schumer

So if they can't find the records within 24-hours the gun will go right to a criminal,

If the gun is knocked out of your hand, it would be disarmed. If the gun were stolen from you, if your little one tried to pick it up, the gun would not fire.

Richard Gephardt

Shutting down the gun loophole will not solve all of the problem, but it is at least something we can do

Jim Garrison

In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men

Jim Harrison

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Jerry Rubin

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jensen Ackles

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Jeffrey Kluger

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

Jackie Speier

What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.

Gary Ackerman

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Hillary Clinton

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

Hillary Clinton

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

Hillary Clinton

Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

Hillary Clinton

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

Hillary Clinton

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

Hillary Clinton

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.