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Quotes About Cannonball

Some folks swear, though not at all, that, using chains, he sliced his head off--derby and all--and that the head sailed like a cannon ball through the air a quarter mile, bounced another quarter mile, and still had enough steam to cripple a horse some fellow was riding into New Marsails.
~ William Melvin Kelley
He adored the boy, who could induce strange reflections in him; once when the infant fell and slightly hurt himself, causing a great commotion, 'the Emperor became very pensive and then said: "I've seen one cannonball take out a single line of twenty men.
~ Andrew Roberts
I am Brianna Hildebrand; I play 'Negasonic Teenage Warhead'. She is a 15 year old psychic - she reads the future - and she also is her own personal cannonball: she's a warhead. So she runs at things and explodes at them, and she's Colossus' sidekick.
~ Brianna Hildebrand
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
~ Jules Verne
Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.
~ Damien Rice
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~ Charles V of France
To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.
~ Carsten Jensen
When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.
~ George Carlin
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~ Charles V
Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~ Charles V
Called girya in Russian, this cannonball with a handle has been making better men and women for over 300 years. In imperial Russia, "kettlebell" was synonymous with "strength." A strongman or weightlifter was called a girevik or a "kettlebell man." Strong ladies were girevichkas or "kettlebell women.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.
~ Damien Rice
All seemed to be over when Bothwell's mainmast was shot away by a cannonball
~ John Guy