Quotes about shooting

Teemu Selanne -

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Dauglas Dauglas - Roses in the Rainbow

Pointing a gun at a strong-minded person is just as inconvenient as wearing a bifocal. There are two realities side-by-side one would end shortly and the other had long-term potential.

P.G. Wodehouse - The Adventures of Sally

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

John le Carré - The Little Drummer Girl

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Mira Grant - Feed

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving

Katja Michael -

No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.

Dauglas Dauglas - Roses in the Rainbow

Some say your whole life appears before you like a TV when someone is about to shoot you, but the reality is you barely have any brain control beyond thinking about the muzzle and the finger on the trigger.

Christopher Morley -

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Catherine Deneuve -

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Kelly Clarkson -

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan -

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

Tim Kreider - We Learn Nothing

Anytime I hear about another one of us gone berserk, shooting up his ex’s office or drowning her kids to free herself up for her Internet boyfriend, the question I always ask is not, like every other tongue-clucking pundit in the country, how could this have happened? but why doesn't this happen every day?

A. Ashley Straker - Infected Connection

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

A. Ashley Straker - Infected Connection

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

A. Ashley Straker - Connected Infection

Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?

Obert Skye - Pillage

Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder.""I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle.""I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall.""Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.

Gail Carriger - Manners & Mutiny

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Dan Rather -

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Mia Hamm - Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Taylor Lautner -

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

George Orwell -

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

David Finkel - The Good Soldiers

I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don't care about these people and all that, I don't care about these people - but I do, at the same time, if that makes any sense. They don't want to help themselves, they're blowing us up, yeah, that hurts, but it also hurts to know that I've seen a girl that's as old as my little brother watch me shoot somebody in the head. And I don't care if she's Iraqi, Korean, African, white - she's still a little g

Alanea Alder - My Savior

Shoot faceless, white blobs. Roger that Menace, Gamma Kitten One over and out.

Rob Lowe -

Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.

Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

Akshay Vasu -

You are my shooting star, and I always make a wish every time I see you.

Jayden Hunter - Undressed To The Nines

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull

John Scalzi - Old Man's War

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?

Steven Galloway - The Cellist of Sarajevo

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Frances Mayes - Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's been shot, noise from my mother, I run to her room behind her, I'm jumping on the canopied bed while she cries, she's pulling out drawers looking for a handkerchief, Now, he's all right, the man say, they think, patting her shoulder, I'm jumping higher, I'm not allowed, they think he saved old man Mayes, the bed slats dislodge and the mattress collapses. My mother lunges for me.Many tr

Halldór Laxness - Independent People

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Priyavrat Thareja -

In fact the trick good shooters deploy is change of focus from long to short and vice versa. And that should happen fast.The modus operandi is an alignment – of long Focus (long term vision) with due validation with respect to current status (short term goals).