Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Woody Guthrie

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

Woody Guthrie

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Will Rogers

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.

Will Rogers

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Will Rogers

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Wes Moore

They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

Ziggy Marley

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

William E. Simon

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

William Dean Howells

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Warren Ellis

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

Warren Buffett

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

Vladimir Lenin

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Will Patton

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

Samuel L. Jackson

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

Ryan Phillippe

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

Wesley Snipes

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

Wanda Sykes

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

Joss Whedon

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Kendrick Lamar

The one in front of the gun lives forever

Ralph Ellison

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Ralph Fiennes

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

Rainn Wilson

I am all for controlling guns.

Rahm Emanuel

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Lenny Kravitz

After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

Laurie Anderson

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

Sean Hannity

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation like the tragedy and the murderous rage in San Bernardino and you're in a room like that, would you want somebody that knew how to use a firearm and had one with them, or if somebody breaks into your house, what are you going to do if they are armed and you are not?And there's not a good answer. There's no good answer except you're a sitting duck for the most part if you're not armed.

Si Robertson

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

Si Robertson

First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.

Shelley Duvall

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

Shelby Lynne

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.

Shanola Hampton

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.