Projectile Quotes

• The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

  Carl Jung

  Death, Mean, Curves

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• In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Thinking, Brain

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• PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Courage, Military, Growth

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

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• A wanton waste of projectiles.

  Mark Twain

  War, Waste, Wanton

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Peace, War, Army

  "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

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• A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

  Jesse Ventura

  Car, Pounds, Hours

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Silence, Darkness

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.124, 谷月社

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• Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! A matter of public record I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.

  Philip J. Corso

  Wise, Kids, Thinking

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• Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

  Eric Holmes

  Gun, Shooting, Blank

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

  Rich Burlew

  Past, Looks, Want

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• I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

  Adele

  Couple, Fire, Anxiety

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• I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

  William Gibson

  Punk, Buried, Decades

  William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.22, Penguin

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• So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Successful, Men

  Upton Sinclair (2007). “Oil!”, p.2, Penguin

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

  Henry Rollins

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Body

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• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Future, Independent

  Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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• A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Horse, Wall, Doors

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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• Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

  Rick Riordan

  Flying, Burritos, Wells

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• The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

  Joan Rivers

  Stage, Horrible, Worst

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