Being Shot Down Quotes

#1. I have the confidence of a killer whale, but being shot down by these losers stings.

Victoria Scott

#2. Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#3. I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#4. 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

#5. If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

Langston Hughes

#6. My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Will Smith

#7. Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#8. It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

Roger Ebert

#9. What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

Dennis Muren

#10. Good-bye
if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. Here I am, in a lovely hotel room, with my own bathroom. I have never experienced such incredible luxury.

Ellen Emerson White

#12. I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#13. If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

Taylor Swift

#14. In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#15. What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Hermann Hesse

#16. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all
and yet there's something in that voice of hers ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

Richard Drew

#18. President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Jimmy Fallon

#19. Our talk is right and the other person's talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#21. In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.

Eric Bana

#22. She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

Megan Whalen Turner