Firing – Quotes

Many years later, in

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If I sleep for

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I’m firing a gun and helicopters are coming down. Emmanuel Jal

The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to … Read more

Higher education is the

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers. Elliott Masie

It\\’s an illusion I\\’ve

It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before– words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again. Elizabeth Wein

Fight ever on: this

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away. Edwin Markham

I mean, when I

I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night. Now that I’m older I work really well in the early morning when your synapses are firing a little better. But I work at different times of the day. Edward Hirsch

One gets into a

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind’s eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. Fritz Kreisler

It is cold at

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. Frederick Forsyth

The reason the lawyers

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more … Read more