Ballistics Quotes

• Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

  Adam Savage

  Saint, Knees, Praying

  "MythBusters/ Quicksand/Bathtub/Electrocution/MRI Rays and Tattoos". Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV, 2004.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Block, Gun, Cameras

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• I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mean, Alcohol, Drug

  "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.

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• Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Chinese, Doe

  Robert Benchley (1947). “Benchley--or else!”

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• The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

  Jose Saramago

  Faith, Mind, Church

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• She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Night, Law

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.55, Penguin

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