Loose Cannon Quotes

#1. Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

Lee Tergesen

#2. Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.

Steven Cojocaru

#3. I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Joanne Harris

#5. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Brian Molko

#6. Mulder had too brilliant a record to be dismissed as a loose cannon. His bosses had to find another way to protect their peace of mind. They did. They made Scully his partner.

Les Martin

#7. I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Penn Jillette

#8. That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

Rick Riordan

#9. Jason muttered "And I saw something ... Really terrible."
"That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon."
"That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-"
"Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

Rick Riordan

#10. That was Hera," Thalia grumbled. "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," said the goddess. "I will turn you into an aardvark, so help me -

Rick Riordan

#11. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

Ben Wilson

#12. The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Russ Carnahan

#13. I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.

Monica Keena

#14. The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

Billy Corgan

#15. Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Jurgen Habermas

#16. Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.

Richard Brautigan

#18. Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

Phyllis Diller

#19. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Dalai Lama XIV

#20. The word of God gives us timeless hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

Doug Liman

#22. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

#23. Just because I have food, it doesn't mean I'm going to share it with you.

Helen

#24. What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety.

Mark Haddon

#25. I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

Alain Ducasse

#26. I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.
Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.

Theodore Dalrymple

#27. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.

L.R.W. Lee

#28. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.

D.D. Barant

#29. We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

Hayden Fry

#30. By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision

Sunday Adelaja