Quotes About Revolvers

#1. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers.

Bill Bryson

#3. The mists seemed to draw back. Waxillium stood there, wearing a large, dusterlike coat, cut into strips below the waist. A pair of revolvers gleamed in holsters at his hips, and he rested a shotgun on each shoulder. His face was bloodied, but he was smiling.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.

Joan Didion

#5. Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

John Shaw Billings

#6. A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [ ... ] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. Hunt game? With pearl-handled revolvers?" I asked, incredulous. "Isn't that a bit ... I dunno ... fancy? Do I just run out into the forest with my pearl-handled revolvers, or do I invite some deer to a cocktail party and then gun them down?

Jeff VanderMeer

#8. A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

Lord Dunsany

#10. There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.

Haruki Murakami

#11. desire to represent to the government authorities the necessity which exists for the adoption of some measures limiting the use of revolvers, whether by heavy tax or otherwise; especially that the sale or delivery of them to persons of immature age should be restricted.'33

Peter Stubley

#12. Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.

George S. Patton Jr.

#13. When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

Pat Buchanan

#14. This is the only real revelation - that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Philip Appleman

#15. I'd still love you even if you were just a head in a box, Travis McRayne.

T.C. Blue

#16. Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Martin Mull

#17. Chin up princess, or the crown slips.

Unknown

#18. I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

Adam Lambert

#19. If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

John Maynard Keynes

#20. Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

Michael Cadnum