Top 106 Pistols Quotes & Sayings

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

There was a thing during those times in the '80s where it was like Sex Pistols then Nirvana and nothing in between.

I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.

We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'

I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.

The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.

We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

When I say I saw shotguns and pistols in the house, I saw them. It was what I grew up around.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn't reading Karl Marx.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well as a kind of kick in the ass. But we had all been playing for years at that point.

For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

I have a concealed carry, so I actually have a few guns that I keep. I keep them in my big, giant high-waisted fashion pants at all times, and I have two small pink pistols because I'm a woman.

We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.

Words are loaded pistols.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure.

I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.

I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.

Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!

The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was so much fun. I bought 45s of bands you don't hear about anymore.