Quotes About Gunshots

#1. I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away.
I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.

Dennis Lehane

#2. Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate

Prodigy

#3. As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Billy Gardell

#4. A brave woman is one who stands up when she hears gunshots. She doesn't dive under the desk.

Lee Child

#5. Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Alex Garland

#6. I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

Ger Duany

#7. Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

Cassandra Clare

#8. The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worse
than any danger.

Willowy Whisper

#9. How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

John Banville

#10. When I heard the gunshots, though, I knew - knew beyond the shadow of a doubt - that somewhere in Los Angeles Bette Davis was on the prowl and packing heat. ("Shadows From The Screen")

Richard Valley

#11. We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.

Floriano Martins

#12. Exploding Head Syndrome: A type of Hypnagogic Auditory Hallucination - a rare and relatively undocumented parasomnia event in which the subject experiences loud crashes, bangs, doors slamming, even gunshots at the onset of sleep or within an hour

June Matthews

#13. Although deer season doesn't start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat.

Stephen King

#14. I want gunshots and canned laughter and dog food commercials. Nothing seems too tragic when the television is blaring.

Liane Moriarty

#15. Behold those times re-created by
the brutal power of sunlit images,
the light of life's tragedy.
The walls of the trial, the field
of the firing squad; and the distant
ghost of Rome's suburbs in a ring,
gleaming white in naked light.
Gunshots: our death, our survival.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#16. The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

Jarreth J. Merz

#17. The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud - gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

Karen Chance

#18. The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Francis Bacon

#19. I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

Rufus Sewell

#20. I'm proud of you, son," he said. "I guess it has finally sunk in that it's important to stand up for yourself in this world."
Rocky shook his head. "It's more important to stand up for someone who can't stand up for herself," he had answered.
Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#21. As soon as our potential experience becomes our actual experience - as soon as we have a stake in its goodness - our brains get busy looking for ways to think about the experience that will allow us to appreciate it.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#22. No new world without a new language.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#23. You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

John F. Kennedy

#24. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Geoffrey Beene

#25. I don't even know what success is.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#26. The Universe does not owe us meaning.

Richard Dawkins

#27. My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

Carine Roitfeld

#28. I have a tendency to overthink things, especially when it comes to my friends, and I don't know ... I take things too personally. I mean, it isn't always them . Sometimes it's me. I just don't always know when it's them and when it's me, you know?

Tamara Ireland Stone

#29. We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Philip Greenspun

#30. The gunshot holds no fear!

Dakota Fanning

#31. You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

Bruce Weber

#32. The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

Benton MacKaye