#pistol

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#canvas #like #pistols #were #work

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#forehead #negotiations #our #own #pistol

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. ↗

— Jerry Only

#clash #discovered #i #obviously #pistols

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#i #i think #money #much #never

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#big #grew #had #heroes #his

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

Words are loaded pistols. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#pistols #words

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#boxes #carry #cartridge #cartridges #grub