Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

Brady Corbet

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Bobby Seale

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Bob Costas

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

Bob Dylan

I don't think there's enough guns.

Brigitte Bardot

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

Brendan Gill

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.

Brad Pitt

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [ in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

Bonnie Raitt

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

Bobby Charlton

Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

Barry Goldwater

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

Antonin Scalia

It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.

Bruce Lee

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people -- because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it -- I don't care how good you are.

Brian Williams

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

Bo Burnham

I'm a drunken midget with a loaded gun, a loaded gun.

Bernhard Goetz

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

Bernie Mac

I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

Eddie Izzard

They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.

Eddie Izzard

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Earl Warren

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

David Icke

I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun laws shortly before he began to transport people to his concentration camps.

David Icke

Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin Bryant in Port Arthur was stolen and he had no licence. Gun laws would not have stopped that, but the reason such laws are being introduced all over the world is to prevent the population from defending themselves when the order goes out to round up those who are challenging the Agenda.

David Brooks

The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

Ben Webster

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Benicio Del Toro

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Barney Ross

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

Edward Kennedy

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

Axl Rose

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Arthur C. Clarke

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.