A Single Shot Quotes

#1. I read somewhere that it's called American roulette. It was invented in America, in the goldfields. You put a single shot in the cylinder, give it a twirl, and then - bang! If you're lucky you break the bank; if not, then it's good-bye

Boris Akunin

#2. There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

Isak Dinesen

#3. No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

Margaret Case Harriman

#4. Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

John Gibbon

#5. No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he remembered correctly, not that it would matter at point-blank range.

Katie Lynn Johnson

#6. Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

Baltasar Gracian

#7. Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

Lech Walesa

#8. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price

Lee Child

#9. The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.

Marie Kondo

#10. You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.

R.D. Ronald

#11. The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

Cruz Bustamante

#12. Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Henry Beard

#13. The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Matt Damon

#14. A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe. The wind blew straight dashes of rain across the window, which flashed silver as they passed through the light. A single leaf tapped hurriedly, persistently, upon the glass. There was a hurricane out at sea.

Virginia Woolf

#15. The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.

Kautilya

#16. You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

Lucy Hale

#17. Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.

Ryan Seacrest

#18. Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an idiot."

"And editors consider themselves the most intelligent people they know," Amanda shot back.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Nicki Minaj

#20. I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards.

Scott Aukerman

#21. Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.

Samantha Sotto

#22. These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Natalie Taylor

#23. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

A. J. Bowen

#24. I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

Neil Patrick Harris

#26. Looks like they went crazy and started cacking each other.' Lisa said to me as we walked through the ship, searching for a single survivor. There were what looked to be barricades in the corridors. The elevator doors were shot through from the inside. So were the sides and the roof!

Christina Engela

#27. another. A single bird flew by at eye level, then shot straight up to the treetops. A grasshopper landed suddenly on my wrist. Creepy magic.

Gillian Flynn

#28. A 22-caliber bullet can travel as fast as 1,022 mph. I learned that at Quantico.
However, the bullet that hit him probably traveled at 818 mph. Sound travels at 761 mph. I hear the bullet after I see the shot enter his head.
But in my mind it all goes so fast that it's just a single message.

Francis Barel

#29. Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You can't be an alcoholic when you only drink top shelf. Right?

Ted Magnuson

#30. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.

Gunter Grass

#31. Pain - expands the Time - / Ages coil within / The minute Circumference / Of a single Brain - / Pain contracts - the Time - / Occupied with Shot / Gamuts of Eternities / Are as they were not -

Emily Dickinson

#32. Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.

Rick McCallum