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  • It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

    Art   Men   Office  
  • Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

    Women   Rose   Riding  
    Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”
  • You can't see a pistol bullet and you can't see a M14 bullet. One is traveling at 800 feet per second, the other is traveling at 4000, where you get to the point that you can't see it, that much faster than something you can't see is not physiologically interesting to you.

    Source: medium.com
  • Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

    1978 Having walked offstage at the WinterlandBallroomduring The Sex Pistols tour of the US,14 Jan.
  • Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

    Girl   Sex   Stars  
  • There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

    Boys   Mirrors   Papa  
    Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.111, Vintage
  • Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

    Horse   Science   Men  
  • I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

    Atheist   Light   People  
  • If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

    Believe   Scotch   Long  
  • Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

    Men   Thinking   Views  
    Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins
  • If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

    Father   Mean   Thinking  
  • Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

    Crazy   Artist   Feet  
  • I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

    Horse   Fun   Book  
    "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.
  • I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

    Jobs   Sex   Kids  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

    John Masefield (2011). “The Box of Delights”, p.20, Egmont UK
  • A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

    Funny   Cat   Humor  
    "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
  • How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

    Song: The Streetz R Deathrow, 1993
  • A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

    Dream   Hurt   Hair  
    William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.812, Modern Library
  • The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

    Hands   Crowds   Pistols  
  • If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1958). “Lolita”, Perigee Trade
  • It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

    Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press
  • Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

    Believe   Russia   Phones  
    "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 164), 1975.
  • I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

    Evil   Pistols   Faces  
    Song: Some L.A. Niggaz, Album: 2001
  • All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

  • No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

    Rapper   Hands   Years  
    Song: Heartz of Men
  • Words are loaded pistols.

    Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media
  • The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

    Gun   Rifles   Needs  
  • I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  • I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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