Quote by Percival Everett Download Open image ““Did state troopers shift their pistols from hip to hip to avoid becoming lopsided?”” — Percival Everett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“These are my soldiers. Standing single-file line in their assembly uniforms. Black shirts, black pants, black boots. No guns. Left fist pressed against their… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Don’t be stupid. I have a gun.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. “Which will knock you on your ass… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that without the law, we’re not a military, just an armed gang that dresses alike.” — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
“What the hell, I think. My pistol is on my hips and my balls are between my legs.” — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“And I didn’t neglect to point out to my Yankee buddies that most of the high shooters in our platoon were Southern boys.” — Eugene B. Sledge Copy Share Image
“Come on, hurry up and aim your .44 Magnum at my pink flowerbed. Oh, come on, let's not talk pistols when you know it's… — Maki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When a police officer is pointing a gun at you, pulling your pants up is a proven way of getting you legally killed.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“How's Mother?" "In and out." As I said it I wondered which was the bad way: in or out? Was she lost when she… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
