Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol."
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Pistols
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too.""
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Words are loaded pistols."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."
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"An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table."
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"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."
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"Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?"
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense"
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"If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger."
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"They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols."
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"Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol."
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"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there."
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"I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff."
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"We haven’t met… I’m Kori Daniels. If you don’t get that gun out of my face, I’m gonna take it, then I’m gonna break your jaw so I can unhinge it and shove your pistol down your throat. That way the bullet goes through the long way."
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"Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert."
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"Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic"
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"I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life."
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"But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place."
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