Pistols Quotes

• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Boys, Ducks

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Canvas, Works Of Art

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• One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

  Herbert Hoover

  Be Prepared, Prepared

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Ramones, Blondie, Clash

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• Words are loaded pistols.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thought Provoking, Existentialism, Loaded

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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

  Darrell Royal

  Bird, Ems, Worms

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• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  Iggy Pop

  Sex, People, Trying

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.

  Jeff Cooper

  Eye, Gun, Choices

  "Guns & Ammo" Magazine, January 2002.

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

  Samuel Fuller

  Common Sense, Use, Common

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• If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Life, Feels

  "Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, May 1974.

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• Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Hair, Wind

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1912, Dell

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Idols, Clubs

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• Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

  Clint Eastwood

  Dixie

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• Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Chrome, Glocks, Sissy

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• I’m still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

  Iwan Rheon

  Teenage, Punk, Angst

  "[TMN Exclusive] Iwan Rheon – Interview". The Music Ninja Interview, www.themusicninja.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

  Tessa Dare

  Challenges, Why Not, Way

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• SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP GRIP. - T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Spring, T Shirt

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Second Grave On The Left: Number 2 in series”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Real, Gun, Safety

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• I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Form

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• Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

  John Lydon

  Feelings, Rotten, Cheated On

  1978 Having walked offstage at the WinterlandBallroomduring The Sex Pistols tour of the US,14 Jan.

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• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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• 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

  Art, Soldier, Boxes

  Arms and the Man (1898) act 1

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• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Sex, Successful, Sex Pistols

  "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Greg Ginn

  Fashion, Sex, Media

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