Shots Quotes
1953 Shots quotes by 1403 unique authors
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I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up…
— Eoin Colfer
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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president,…
— William Gibson
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It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the…
— Charles M. Schulz
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A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the…
— Ray Bradbury
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and…
— John Green
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I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
— Johnny Cash
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
— Jonathan Tropper
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...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
— Virginia Woolf
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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'…
— Jack Kerouac
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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
— Douglas Adams
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
— Carrie Fisher
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Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila ,…
— Kim Harrison
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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number...
— Junot Diaz
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And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say…
— C.S. Lewis
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Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and…
— William S. Burroughs
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air,…
— Victor Hugo
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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
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I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony name,…
— Denis Johnson
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie…
— Umberto Eco
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life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre
— Susanna Tamaro
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
— Sylvia Plath
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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