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Quotes About Revolver

I wonder if we're dealing with an amateur," she said. "Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn't America.
~ Peter Lovesey
But look closer, this revolver is North Korean. It was constructed by our own engineers and is actually a forty-six-caliber, a little bigger, a little more powerful than the American model
~ Adam Johnson
There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.
~ Agatha Christie
Present­ly, when the strain re­laxed, Blore said: 'There are habits and habits! Mr. Lom­bard takes a re­volver to out-?of-?the-way places, right enough, and a primus and a sleep­ing-?bag and a sup­ply of bug pow­der, no doubt! But habit wouldn't make him bring the whole out­fit down here? It's on­ly in books peo­ple car­ry re­volvers around as a matter of course.' Dr. Arm­strong shook his head per­plexed­ly.
~ Agatha Christie
The Captain's habit of letting off a revolver at real or imaginary cats was a sore trial to his neighbours.
~ Agatha Christie
An ungentlemanly war it will be,' he grumbled. 'Will I lead my men with a sword? Ah, but no! I will lead my men with a dirty revolver in my hand. Parbleu! Such is modern warfare! A machine could do the whole cursed thing better -- we shall all be nothing but machines in this war.
~ Radclyffe Hall
Ich blickte den Revolver an, und der Revolver blickte mich an.
~ Raymond Chandler
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
~ Josh Billings
It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.
~ Tina Fey
Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
She went to get the revolver, which had long since been loaded by a most considerate Providence, and when she held it in her hand, weighty as a phallus in action, she realised she was big with murder, pregnant with a corpse.
~ Jean Genet
The revolver was black and nearly new. I was afraid to even touch it, for in it lay all the whole difference between what I was and what I was going to be.
~ Elie Wiesel
and placed his revolver close to its head. Death was instantaneous.
~ Alfred Lansing
I think the reason I do not want to die is because of the things I hope will happen. Yes, that's right. I'm sure that's right. Point a revolver at a tramp, at a wet shivering tramp on the side of the road and say, I'm going to shoot you, and he will cry, Don't shoot. Please don't shoot. The tramp clings to life because of the things he hopes will happen.
~ Roald Dahl
Veronica's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils. She tried to relax her shoulders.
~ Rob Thomas
Epigraph "I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it." --New York Times, June 3 1915
~ Amy Stewart
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
~ Andre Breton
Colt makes a heavy firearm." - Virgil Cole
~ Robert B. Parker
I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.
~ Laurie R. King
No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.
~ Don Winslow
Man had a habit of routinely taking up and firing a revolver at the roosterroaches who dwelt in His house, with westerly accuracy depending on how much He had had to drink. Other ministers before Brother Tichborne had determined that this shooting and westering of chosen roosterroaches was both a form of punishment and an expression of Man's love, and therefore the shooting, or the act of being shot, was called not a westering but a Rapture.
~ Donald Harington
He often carried a revolver—and often misplaced it, according to Inspector Thompson. From time to time, Thompson recalled, Churchill would abruptly brandish his revolver and, "roguishly and with delight," exclaim: "You see, Thompson, they will never take me alive! I will get one or two before they can shoot me down.
~ Erik Larson
The reply to this was that Three took out a small revolver, and this surprised me; for everyone knows that anger is most intense towards those you know: it is lovers and neighbors who kill each other. There's no sense, after all, in behaving that way toward a perfect stranger; where's the satisfaction? No love, no need; no need, no frustration; no frustration, no hate, right? It must have been fear.
~ Joanna Russ