“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.” MenDifferencesPracticeEventsDrawsGunShooting Book:Sackett Source: Sackett
“It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.” IfsMatterShowsEventsGunCriminalsFleasFlea Markets Author:Janet Reno
“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.” PeopleUsedRoomsRecordsEventsDrugGunCrossesShoesMarketingYou ChoosePlaying MusicSunglasses Author:Ani DiFranco
“Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.” PeopleHumansDifferentShowsFunSimpleSpaceFictionEventsGunScience FictionShipsWanderRadicalShootingDullInterpretationRaysHuman ExperienceCommonplaceWandering AroundDifferent InterpretationsReinterpretation Author:Douglas Adams
“The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.” WellsHas BeensBigsEventsPagesGunTinySettingSettingsJournalistDevotedPoppingRumbleBig EventsHissingFirecracker Book:Here at the New Yorker Source: Here at the New Yorker
“The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.” AmericaWhitePartyEventsRepublicanIntellectualGunRoseShoesPairsConventionsRepublican PartyGuns N RosesWhite Shoes Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.” PeopleEndsCountryRealityFunnyGuyComedyEventsGunCrossesConnectionsWinterShootingMake SenseSwimmingPoolOlympicsBangsLanesSkisSkiingCombiningSwimmerSnipersStranglingWinter OlympicsAlpine Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“I don't get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.” EventsMassGunTerrorDebateShootingProposalMass ShootingsTerror Attacks Author:Chuck Todd
“It was in the nineties. [Bill] Clinton was president. And Clinton was making, you know, the usual Democrat move on guns after some of event, and Wayne LaPierre said, "I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence."” ThinkingKnowsSaidMovingCertainPresidentLevelsViolenceEventsComfortableGunBillsClintonDemocratUsualWayne Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.” GivingGoneEventsBabyGunChinaIpodsSporting Events Author:Diablo Cody