Shooting Quotes - Page 29

• I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

  Dave Navarro

  Two, Nine, Coke

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Feet, Quality, Netherlands

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• My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

  Annie Oakley

  Mother, Running, School

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• The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Cameras, Easy

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• An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.

  Alan Sugar

  Crazy, People, Entrepreneur

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• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  Randy Travis

  Horse, Gun, Riding

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• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

  Phil Cousineau

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Would Be, Veto

  "Chirac 'believes veto would not stop US'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2003.

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• You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.

  Peter Malam Brothers

  Thinking, Games, Bail

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• I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.

  Gunther Rall

  Years, Skills, Feelings

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• I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Mean, Curves, Flying

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

  David McCampbell

  Fundamentals, Pilots, Aviation

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• What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Real, Giving

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• Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Watches, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.62, New Riders

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• I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Important, Trying

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.168, New Riders

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• You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Thinking, Stuff Happens

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.224, New Riders

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• There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, Photograph

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• For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Moon, Journey, Firsts

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• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Giving, Alcohol, Remember

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Years, Four, Crime

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “Ragtime: A Novel”, p.8, Random House

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• I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Art, Father, Home

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• The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

  Massad Ayoob

  Hunting, Ducks, Second Amendment

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• If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.

  Mike D

  Would Be, Way, Found

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• The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Future, Believe, Space

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• Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Past, Transition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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