Bullet Quotations

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the premise for 'The Keepsake' occurred to me: what if an 'ancient' mummy turns out to have a bullet in its leg? How does a modern murder victim get turned into a mummy?

We've already shot him twice with the rubber bullet today, once when he was at Powerhouse 2 getting very close to the entrance and then he disappeared and he showed up here close to this entrance and we shot him again.

There are bullet holes in the doors and the walls

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

What we're saying is, pay back these men who are prepared to take a bullet for you. The least you could do, if they're willing to put their life on the line, is get involved, fix this problem.

What have we got to lose? The kid threw a bullet and he just beat it. That's the hardest run to make in sports ? inside the park.

We know what a gun and bullet does to a person's body, but we have no idea what a stun gun does.

We're still not really sure what happened for the bullet to go that far away, ... It was really puzzling.

We have a situation where we have the most highly qualified, the best trained of federal law enforcement agents, they are willing to take a bullet for the president, they are prepared to take a bullet for the vice president ... (but) they cannot get a simple promotion to a position that they deserve.

This tendency to look year by year is extremely myopic. There is a certain degree of variability . . . whether the bullet hit the arm or the heart; whether the victim reached the ER in time. It makes it very difficult to interpret the changes.

When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

Let me tell you something, Johnson. I hope it's Dillon. I've been waiting a long time to put a bullet in his brain. And in yours.

Make no mistake about it: We dodged a bullet here, perhaps many bullets, ... As outlined in this indictment, these individuals had devised a plan, selected targets, obtained the weapons, set the date and chosen their victims.

Make no mistake about itwe dodged a bullet here, perhaps many bullets.

Many parents want a magic bullet to keep their kids safe, but kids can usually find a way around this parental control software. In protecting kids, the key element is education and getting parents involved.

Obviously we dodged a major bullet there, ... He seems to be doing fine.

Right now it's a matter of biting the bullet and building our program. The best part is we're very excited about our underclassmen.

On occasion it can be very useful. But we don't think it's the magic bullet that the government thinks it is.

I have bullet holes in my old body because I've been shot down by the sheriff.

I can imagine that they are, as sorry as they are that the child was hurt at all, I'm sure that they are relieved to know that it is not a law enforcement bullet that did it.

I bet if I knocked on one door with bullet holes, I knocked on a hundred.

Cell phone-based marketing could be the silver bullet we've been looking for in advertising for a long time.

I even took a bullet for the First Amendment,

If a bullet should go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door.

If it had been coming away from the airport my three-year-old would have been sitting where the bullet hit.

He was very close and it was a bullet header, but I saw it pretty quickly and just had to get down to it. It's a reaction thing really.

He hit a bullet and I was able to make the play on a short hop. A few inches over and it would have been past me.

We've given up 108 points in our last two games. Our defense, right now, is full of bullet holes. We've got to start closing the gaps.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

He's bullet quick, and a true scorer. There are other small quick guys. But the big thing that separates him is he's got great range on his jump shot. He can shoot the 3 without any problem.

We may dodge a bullet in Houston, Texas. But I'd rather sit in traffic for eight to 12 hours than take a chance it doesn't change any farther to the east. We're talking about people's lives here.

He just doesn't miss. I dodged a bullet but it's nice to get through, because I played pretty well.

Handing a laptop to kids isn't necessarily going to be a magic bullet for improving student learning.

Jorge may DH, I don't know. We have a lot of choices at DH, so it's doubtful that he will because it ties your hands. If we feel he's the best option, we'll bite the bullet and take our chances.

I think it's important that there is change. Change can be good. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet a little bit, because sometimes it's a player that people like on your team and in your city. I think Bill's track record probably speaks for itself.

I was concerned whoever did what they did would put a bullet in my head.

I think there's a good chance we'll dodge the bullet this time.

I think every law enforcement officer in Sedgwick County hoped to be the one with the magic bullet

I saw a bullet hole and I lifted up his shirt. He was trying to breathe and then I saw the blood.

RIM has dodged a bullet today. But it's very clear the bullet is coming their way.

Our objective is in line with what their objective is. If Venezuela is looking for large increases in production, the silver bullet is the Orinoco.

Sure I was excited when shoot down the Japanese planes. I also felt I was lucky to get back, ... I didn't get injured. Only one bullet slipped through the edge of my finger.

Some of them have bullet wounds. All of them are Shiites.

That caused such turmoil in the industry. Hopefully they will start to ease. There was a lot of biting the bullet when fuel prices were so high, but 2006 does promise some light at the end of that tunnel.

My piece just kind of was another bullet in his rear end.

It dodged a bullet by avoiding punitive damages in this case. But if it is forced to clean up lead paint, the company's exposure could be huge.

It didn't turn out that way, ... Over and over again he reminded me, things are not that simple. There's no single key or magic bullet that's going to cure all human ills or difficulties or problems.

That would be a radical makeover but what Sun needs is a radical makeover. It needs to bite the bullet on hardware and make a bold strategic move,

You'll see some bullet shells on some of the trails around campus. But that's about it.

We do not deny that Nathaniel had the gun that fired the bullet that struck Mr. Green.

We have been talking about full-day kindergarten, and every time it comes up, everybody says they're for it, but nobody wants to bite the bullet and do it and it never gets done. In my opinion, the only way full-day kindergarten will ever be implemented in the state of Indiana is if we commit the next legislature to do it.

Wahid and Megawati are still not living in reality. They have to bite the bullet and start taking action. We need real leadership. People are fighting each other and we have to do something for the interests of the nation.

We have truly dodged a major bullet here,

We need to figure out why our public education system is failing to ignite the learning process in some of the poorest students, ... When it comes to education, people want silver bullets, they want magic tools, and technology sure looks like that magic bullet to a lot of people.

We have a strong economy, but it's not bullet proof, so you've got to be very careful about the steps you take to try to change the way things are going. There is certainly room for the market to go up.

We are looking at other things. There is not just one single bullet for zoning. It is a process with a lot of facets.

We dodged one bullet this weekend when we learned the 98.5 octane gas we had to run didn't hurt us as bad as we thought it might.

we dodged a legal bullet, and this bullet is aimed at the heart of the programs that benefit the Hawaiian people and thereby bring benefits to the state of Hawaii.

We dodged a bullet today. The rain stayed south and east of us.

We dodged a bullet there. We had good luck on our side.

We dodged a bullet considering the way things went for us this past week with injuries.

The crime was not reported until Tuesday when the victim/girlfriend was able to escape her attacker and seek medical treatment. The victim was shot in two fingers on her left hand as she lay in bed. The bullet hit her hand, which was by her head at the time.

We only had bullet points in our script,

Who would do a thing like this so brutally? Somebody had to be very angry at him. If somebody just wanted to kill him, they had to put a bullet in the head, not tie him up and stab him to death with a shirt over his head.

We will eventually see the negative impact of rising rates -- we can't dodge that bullet -- but doesn't usually happen at the beginning of the cycle. I'm not sure we will continue to see the market beating expectations by these margins, but I don't see the market collapsing in the next month or so.

We thought he might not come back and play at all, that was our first thought process. It was shocking, frightening. He was there to help his brother. In this instance, he took a bullet for him.

This time, it was Michoud's turn to take a bullet for the team,

We didn't get in that fight before and I don't suspect we will again. Whatever they decide is what we will have to operate on. ... I just hope no one thinks this is a magic bullet that is going to lower insurance rates unless the elected insurance commissioner can stop hurricanes.

While it may not be the single silver bullet in the fight to protect our children in cyberspace, ... it is an important piece of a much larger solution.

We need to bite the bullet and see how we can move beyond nuclear weapons deterrence, and I think that we have not done that yet.

When you are in the military, you have to accept the fact you have rejected your right to say what you want to say, how you want to dress, where you want to be. At the word of the commander, they should rise early, climb mountains, endure bad weather, endure hard terrain and the bullet of the enemy ... I do that every now and then to my men in our training.

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don't remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way.

While there is no single silver bullet to cure all food safety problems, irradiation has been shown to be both safe and effective, ... USDA is committed to approving new technologies that offer industry additional tools to help produce even safer food.

You cannot discharge any firearms within the city limits. It's just a matter of physics: What goes up comes down, and the speed that the bullet goes up increases the rate that it comes down, and that can be dangerous.

We do not know if the man suffered a bullet wound.

We see a shortage of IT workers and think we'll meet our needs by importing foreign workers. But we don't bite the bullet to make the changes we need to make here in the U.S..

You give it up by not staying on top of it, growing it and by not being competitive, or you simply give up. We didn't lose the businesses. We gave them up. These people are willing to come in, bite the bullet and do whatever's necessary to get the business up to where it's successful. They understand the rewards for what they do.

Both cases we came up with were very pessimistic. There is no single magic bullet for stopping pandemic flu.

Even if we dodge the bullet this time, there's another in the chamber just waiting.

As the Baby Boomers get older, they're going where it's warmer. It's not a matter of if (Minnesota loses a seat in Congress), it's a matter of when. It would be nice to dodge the bullet one more time, but eventually we're going to lose a seat in Congress.

An economic hit man walked into his office and said, 'Congratulations, Mr President, I just want you to know that over here I've got a couple of hundred million dollars for you and your family if you cooperate with your Uncle Sam and our oil companies. And over here I have a man with a gun in his hand and a bullet with your name on it.'

There's a good chance that this case is going to be reopened. They exhumed the body. They looked at the body. They were able to tell what kind of bullet it came from... determine what torture had been done to Emmett Till.

There's no one form of one single magic bullet in terms of advertising.

It would appear to me this is going to continue. It's not an absolutely easy disease to control. We really can't give anyone a magic bullet to control it or mitigate it. It would not surprise me if we continue to see cases.

It weighed exactly what it did when it was fired. There is no evidence that is consistent with this bullet being a ricochet.

The threats out there are all manageable. We don't have a silver bullet against any of them, but there is nothing that can't be overcome with good practices.

I've lived in a lot of places, and this is the only town I love, the only town I'd take a bullet for, ... Right now I feel like I have an Uzi aimed at my head, but I'll take a lot more bullets if there are people standing next to me.

I've always told people that he has the best hands on the team, including all the wide receivers and the running backs. I think that second touchdown showed it. Jake threw him a bullet and he just caught it with ease. It's good to have a guy like that who has such versatility.

Sadly the U.S. industry has not bitten the bullet and accepted the need for a compulsory system rather than voluntary system at this point.

Demand is outstripping supply and this is the bullet point of the problem. The U.S. refinery snags are adding fuel to the flames. Certainly, in the long term, prices will head higher.

The bullet entered through one cheek and exited out the other side.