A Quote by Neil Gaiman

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
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Born: November 10, 1960

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Robinson

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

George Carey

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

Barbara Johnson

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Scott Westerfeld

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Mario Puzo

Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)

Bill Shankly

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

Ruth Westheimer

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Alva Myrdal

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Pablo Picasso

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

Stephen Bayley

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

Mira Grant

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Pat Roberts

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

Peter Morgan

Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.

Luis Bunuel

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