Tommy Gun Sayings

#1. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

Charles Bukowski

#2. He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

Elvis Presley

#3. His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.

Giles Milton

#4. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Tommy Douglas

#5. Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.

Tommy Cooper

#6. (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Tina Fey

#7. The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

Robert Fortune

#8. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

Bart Yates

#9. I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

Tommy Lasorda

#10. Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep ... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

Rudyard Kipling

#11. An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Isabel Paterson

#12. It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#13. Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Bob Geldof

#14. Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

Eric Allman

#15. You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen?

Mike Carey