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Letter "P" » pistols
«A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it»
«I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.»
Author: Hinton Helper
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Bowie, Bowie knife, California, finer, Francisco, furnish, guns, knives, liquors, pistols, prettier, purer, San, San Francisco, tobacco, truer, unbiased, visited
«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. ''»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conditions, holder, Holders, in reply, I Love You, pistol, pistols, pointed, replies, reply, requires, Somebody to Love
«They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.»
Author: William E. Geist
| Keywords:
Bermuda, Bermuda shorts, grill, grilled, peppered, pistol-whip, pistol, pistols, shorts
«The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air»
«It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.»
«Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Act of Parliament, assail, assailed, assailing, assails, bombs, incurred, incurring, incurs, knives, musicians, parliament, parliaments, penalties, pistols, placing, sticks
«And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Future,
Teenage
| Keywords:
arrange, five year old, loaded, pistols, toys
«There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.»
«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.»
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