Shooting Blanks Quotes

#1. Ghastek, why haven't you married?" I asked.
He gave me a thin-lipped smile. "Because if I were to get married, I would want to have a family. To me, marriage means children."
"So what's the problem? Shooting blanks?"
Desandra asked.
Kill me.

Ilona Andrews

#2. I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#3. Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

Brian Tracy

#4. I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

Maggie Q

#5. I asked him. " 'I'm telling you that you aren't shooting blanks and haven't been for quite awhile now, ' he said. 'Millions of little wigglies in your sperm sample. Your days of going gaily in bareback with no questions asked have temporarily come to an

Stephen King

#6. The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

Jessica Lynch

#7. Consistency is the virtue of mules!

Amish Tripathi

#8. I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Pete Waterman

#9. If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Bob Marley

#10. Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Blaise Pascal

#11. Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Horace

#12. He changed me. He helped me see who I really was and realize that I didn't like that person. He made me want to be different. He made me want to be better to myself and everyone else.

Ashley Uzzell

#13. The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

Francois Mauriac

#14. There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

Letitia Baldrige

#15. And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

J.K. Rowling

#16. While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#17. My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

Richard M. Daley

#18. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

Charles Bukowski