#gun

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#firearms #germans #guns #having #join

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#director #film #gun #hard #hire

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#deeds #gun #heaven #target #thoughts

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#appeal #begun #form #great #had

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ↗

— Stephen King

#guns #person

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. ↗

— Steven Adler

#bands #different #five #guns #guys

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more