Cop Quote by Ralph Ellison Download Open image “I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.” — Ralph Ellison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cop Gun Poet Poetry Triggers
We want poems that kill assassin poems, poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys. And take their weapon, leaving them dead — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as… — Theo James Copy Share Image
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything. — Allison Hedge Coke Copy Share Image
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“They [Cops] were living in the media age, and in the media age, cops didn't get to fire their weapons. Cops were honored if… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization--pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)--which might sound like a… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know… — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share Image
I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard. — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing,… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
