Shot Quotes

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. (Winston Churchill)
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. View quote
Michael Jordan
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. View quote
Douglas Adams
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. View quote
Groucho Marx
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger. View quote
Samuel Johnson
People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. View quote
Emo Philips
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. View quote
Michael Jordan
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. View quote
Winston Churchill
No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. (Andrew Johnson)
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. View quote
Georgette Heyer
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. View quote
Truman Capote
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. View quote
Robert Frost
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
Robert Frost
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. View quote
Tim Allen
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches. View quote
Greg Bear
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip. View quote
Eminem
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. View quote
Mark Twain
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. View quote
Elia Kazan