A Quote by Ray Bradbury

A book is a loaded gun.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
American - Writer
August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

Jim Goldberg

I'm a drunken midget with a loaded gun, a loaded gun.

Bo Burnham

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Ray Bradbury

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

Irving Azoff

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

Marie Lu

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

Alice Cooper

You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

Billy Collins

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Terence McKenna

Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into the world. It's an expressly loaded subject, one on which you can't win.

Nathan Englander

Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Andre Breton

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

Warren Buffett

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

Victoria Pendleton

If you get to the point in your career where you're running with a gun - I've yet to run with a gun. I've stood still with a gun, and I've walked with a gun, but I've never run with a gun. Running with a gun, to me, that's when you know you've really made it.

David Costabile

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