Quotes About Gunfire

#1. Couldn't tell which direction the gunfire was coming from.

James S.A. Corey

#2. As I get older, Vincent, I have come to prefer a quiet evening at home to a bracing exchange of gunfire in the dark.

Douglas Preston

#3. This was what Ditlev loved: ceaseless gunfire, ceaseless killing, flapping specks in the sky terminated in an orgy of color. The slow drizzle of birds' bodies falling from above. The eagerness of the men to reload their weapons.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#4. Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing.

Stephen King

#5. First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

Stephen King

#6. Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Edward Abbey

#7. I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.

Elizabeth Berg

#8. Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...

Daniel Handler

#9. To Christopher's amazement, Albert didn't move. A dog who thought nothing of running through gunfire was completely cowed by Beatrix Hathaway.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Bryant McGill

#11. Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

Robert Crais

#12. No more hellfires and please no more gunfire

Tiesto

#13. First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Stephen King

#14. Gunfire cracked around them.
"Just warning shots," he yelled.
"How do you know?"
"We're not dead.

Brynn Kelly

#15. Everyone froze.
In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had unreeled in ponderous elegance, and the crystalline immobility that followed was intensified by the lingering smell of gunfire, like an olfactory echo of the big bang.

Robert B. Parker

#16. If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.

Michael D. Barnes

#17. At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

Dinaw Mengestu

#18. In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

Jo Grimond

#19. TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.

Bryant McGill

#20. Whoever had designed the block of flats had obviously worked to a clear set of priorities. Unfortunately, while cost, size, and low-maintenance had made it to the top of the list, aesthetics, good escape routes, and shelter from gunfire hadn't.

Benedict Jacka

#21. The sounds of gunfire didn't bother Winn any more. It just meant that this was the weekend, or a soccer tournament, or someone had a sale on ammunition.

Scott Rhine

#22. His first sign that things were going wrong was a massive barrage of gunfire that seemed to come from everywhere at once.

James S.A. Corey

#23. No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#24. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

LeBron James

#26. I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.

Louie Gohmert

#27. Once more, dully menacing, comes the noise of gunfire, and already from afar, like the bill of a woodpecker, sounds the knock-knocking of a machine gun. We grow calm and are almost glad to hear again the familiar, trusty noises of death.

Erich Maria Remarque

#28. There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

#29. We don't talk about the danger
but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a super hero, running, invincible, through a spray of gunfire.

Christina Baker Kline

#30. Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?

Don Kates

#31. When it came to gunfire Jumper didn't have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet.

Fred Gipson

#32. Evan's head was filled with the sound of water. He thought of the ghost in the grass, her blue dress and bare feet. He thought of the way the doves had flown up into the sky all in a ruse, startled by gunfire, and then all he could think was that despite everything that happened, he was alive.

Alice Hoffman

#33. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby

Seanan McGuire

#34. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.

Victoria Schwab

#35. What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

Tennessee Williams

#36. I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

Joy Harjo

#37. Susan of course would rather face gunfire than walk in the rain and ruin her hair. But

Robert B. Parker

#38. Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

David Letterman

#39. The chime wasn't the most pleasant sound in the world to wake up to, but Eric had awakened to far worse in the past. Gunfire was always a sure way to go from dead to the world to more alive than you'd ever been, assuming none of the bullets actually struck you.

Evan Currie

#40. Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.

Craig L. Symonds

#41. Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Francois Duvalier

#42. NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,

Marcus Sakey