John Hinckley Quotes

#1. So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

Charles B. Rangel

#2. Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

Adam Langer

#3. I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

Charles B. Rangel

#4. Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of the most famous actresses in the world.

John Hinckley Jr.

#5. To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

Shia Labeouf

#6. She watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat.

Mark Haddon

#7. I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

Heather Dorff

#8. Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble.

Jesse Petersen

#9. We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - and we need to listen to the messages being sent. They are real messages - just as real as a human saying something to you.

Zoe McLellan

#10. Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#12. We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

Luisah Teish

#13. If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.

Pablo Picasso

#14. For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

Desmond Tutu

#15. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.

John Hinckley Jr.

#16. An inflexible tree breaks in a storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

Luc De Clapiers

#18. Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

Andrzej Sapkowski