“I am a man of cultivation; I have studied various remarkable books, but I cannot fathom the direction of my preferences; do… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
