Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Regan

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Bayard Taylor

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon

Kenny G

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

We're losing a big cannon from the point, a big guy in front of the net in our zone as well.

Rob Lowe

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Duke of Wellington

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

He's a loose cannon out there. There's no fear in him. As much length as he has, he has no fear. There's just no quit.

He was hidden there. We saw what a good senior season he had, and that he had a cannon for an arm, and recruited him.

Forward the Light Brigade! Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die; Into the valley of death, Rode the six hundred, Cannon to right

Jackie Robinson

There is also a PCC connection to the exhibition as well,' Cannon said.

Jules Verne

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

That was big. Freshman Sean Little stepped up. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon tonight. We hadn't heard from him in a few games, he gets a few here and there, but I thought he really picked it up tonight.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.

Every single terrorist event we've had, and the failed ones we've had, there usually are foreign connections, even though the cannon fodder may be home grown.

Johnny Depp

We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out.

Charles Baudelaire

The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness

Congressman Cannon should return the money he's taken from any questionable sources. Cannon's continued refusal to return this dirty money raises serious questions about Cannon's own conduct and the direction of his moral compass.

Paul Casey

I'm not for raising the income tax rate, but I'm not for lowering it. If we were to lower it, it might just have the same effect as it would to shoot a cannon into a sinking ship.

Anton Chekhov

I cannon off the cushion! I pot into the middle pocket.

Cannon to right of them,/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them/ Volleyed and thundered.

James Monroe

Cannon Ridge is a little more open, ... So a wayward shot won't kill you like it will out here.

Lee Tergesen

He's sort of a loose cannon with a quick wit, ... He's somebody who of course is intense. I always wind up playing somebody a little intense. Maybe I'm just intense.

Cindy Sheehan

For the more than 1,800 who have come home this way in flag-draped coffins, each one ... was a son or a daughter, not cannon fodder to be used so recklessly, ... Each one is a valuable human life that is missed so desperately.

You know, Joe (Cannon) is one of the great goalkeepers in the league. But we have a roster full of players and they need to stay on top of their job. I thought Byron was very good. I think that he is young and has enormous shoes to fill whenever Joe Cannon is out.