Gunfighting Quotes & Sayings

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. — Miyamoto Musashi

But tell you true, I honestly didn't think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world's full of them. — J.D. Jordan

The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country! — Barbara Mikulski

No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn. — J.D. Jordan

Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public. — Larry McMurtry

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five. — Kristen Stewart

You want the scent? Smell yourself! — Hannibal

Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... 'have a gun.' — Jeff Cooper

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. — Erwin Schrodinger

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup. — Michelle Phan

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager — Graham Taylor

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. — Octavia E. Butler

The only scorecard that ever gets tallied in the real world is how many times you walk away from the fight and leave your opponent dead in the dust. I can shoot damn straight when the occasion calls for it, but I'm not a bulls-eye expert. The difference is, I can hit a man on the other side of the street while I'm running, ducking, and dodging automatic weapons fire. Sacrificing pinpoint accuracy for shooting fast and on the move may mean you burn a little more ammo, but in the end, it's going to keep you alive a lot longer. Gunfighting isn't a biathlon. It's an ugly business that rewards dirty tricks and being faster and meaner and more ruthless than the other guy. It's the only way you're going to win. — Jack Badelaire

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone. — Pico Iyer

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. — Alan Moore

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa. — Stephen Root

She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?'
'I must admit that I do not.'
'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating. — Jack Vance

Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand. — Megan Whalen Turner