Shotguns Quotes

• Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

  Truman Capote

  Wells, Noisy, Tall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

  Carole King

  Men, Hands

  Song: Smackwater Jack, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

  Mario Puzo

  Dangerous

  "Fictional character: Calo". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

  Louis L'Amour

  Doe, Dangerous, Knows

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• It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

  Larry Wall

  Problem, Easy, Solve

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• When your holding a double barrel shotgun use both barrels.

  JR

  Use, Barrels

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• You don’t need an AR-15. It’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact, you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun.

  Joe

  Needs, Use, Facts

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• Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Names, Stuff, Lord

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Dead in the West”, p.165, Gere Donovan Press

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• I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

  Phil Gramm

  Gun, Needs, Want

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• A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Men, Guitar, Weapons

  "Guitar Whispering". Interview with John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun.

  Rutger Hauer

  Hobos, Ends, Like Me

  "Fictional character: Hobo". "Hobo with a Shotgun", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

  Joe Biden

  Gun, Fire, Doors

  "The F&S Gun Rights Interviews: Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States". Interview with Anthony Licata, www.fieldandstream.com. February 25, 2013.

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• People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Cousin, Gun, House

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• It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Woods, Sound, Sometimes

  Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press

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• When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

  Brené Brown

  Riding, Driving, Annoying

  FaceBook post by Brené Brown from Jun 13, 2013

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• When I hit the bong
  I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong
  Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

  Redman

  Rap, Long, Hip Hop

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• Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

  Steve Ditko

  Gun, Power, Choices

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

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

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• I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tanks, Looks, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.76, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
  Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
  Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump...
  Lala la la lala la laaaa

  B-Real

  Rap, Hands, Hip Hop

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• There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

  Nikki Sixx

  Tree, Naked, Sitting

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

  Austin O'Malley

  Knowledge, Games, Damage

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• As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.387, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.

  Chelsea Handler

  Airports, Iraq, Pockets

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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