Top 183 Cannon Quotes & Sayings

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

You know, Billy Cannon is very fast.

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

Winning the cannon was a childhood dream.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill.

Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.

I wake up like I'm shot out of a cannon.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

You know, I once did a short film with Kay Cannon. It was set at a gynecologist's office and I was her nurse in hospital scrubs.

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

I'm a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

I'm not a loose cannon. If I'm wrong, I say so.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.