Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hicks

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent...

Bill Hicks

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

I think putting $500 million out there with the needs that we now have is like taking a switch to a gun fight.

Robert Logan

I think that it's jumping the gun a little bit,

Bob Hope

My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.

Bob Schneider

If I had to just play 200 shows a year with the same set, there'd be a gun. In my mouth. With bullets in it.

Bob Gunton

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

Bob Feller

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Chelsea Handler

Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.

Charlton Heston

A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

Charlton Heston

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Charlton Heston

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

Charlton Heston

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as `assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.

Charlton Heston

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

Charlton Heston

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Charlton Heston

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

Charlton Heston

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

We could never really get on track tonight. You've got to be able to be ready from the gun to come out and play. Overall, we played hard and tried to compete. We got open looks, but could not knock them down.

Bertrand Russell

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

We have enough gun control. What we need is idiot control.

James McBride

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.

James Monroe

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed

James Madison

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

James Madison

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

James M. Cain

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

John Dingell

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

John Oliver

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

John McCrae

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

Joe Jordan

gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

Jimmy Fallon

Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

Gabrielle Giffords

We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

Gayle Forman

Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11