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Familiar Quotations

Shooting

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.–Anonymous

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?–Anonymous

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?–Anonymous

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.–Tallulah Bankhead

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.–Brendan F. Behan

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.–Hilaire Belloc

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.–Ashleigh Brilliant

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.–Les Brown

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.–William Burroughs

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.–Jamais Cascio

• Preface ix
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Shooting 1
• Shooting – "Branches" 3
• Shooting – "Bud" 3
• Shooting – "Discharge" 3
• Shooting – "Driving" 3
• Shooting – "Firing" 4
• Shooting – "Flash" 4
• Use in Literature 5
• Shooting 5
• Shooting – "Afraid" 30
• Shooting – "Archers" 30
• Shooting – "Arms" 31
• Shooting – "Around" 33
• Shooting – "Arrows" 33
• Shooting – "Autumn" 36
• Shooting – "Worst" 37
• Shooting – "Behind" 37
• Shooting – "Being" 38
• Shooting – "Believe" 39
• Shooting – "Best" 39
• Shooting – "Black" 41
• Shooting – "Boys" 42
• Shooting – "Brave" 42
• Shooting – "Broken" 43
• Shooting – "Bud" 43
• Shooting – "Bullets" 45
• Shooting – "Call" 45
• Shooting – "Captain" 47
• Shooting – "Carried" 48
• Shooting – "Case" 49
• Shooting – "Chance" 50
• Shooting – "Close" 51
• Shooting – "Come" 52
• Shooting – "Command" 56
• Shooting – "Country" 57
• Shooting – "Dare" 58
• Shooting – "Dark" 59
• Shooting – "Day" 59
• Shooting – "Direction" 63
• Shooting – "Don't" 64
• Shooting – "Doubt" 65
• Shooting – "Drew" 66
• Shooting – "Dreaming" 67
• Shooting – "Ducked" 68
• Shooting – "Early" 68
• Shooting – "Earth" 69
• Shooting – "Easily" 70
• Shooting – "End" 70
• Shooting – "English" 71
• Shooting – "Evening" 72
• Shooting – "Falls" 72
• Shooting – "Far" 73
• Shooting – "Father" 74
• Shooting – "Fear" 75
• Shooting – "Feet" 76
• Shooting – "Felt" 77
• Shooting – "Few" 78
• Shooting – "Fishing" 80
• Shooting – "Followed" 81
• Shooting – "Former" 82
• Shooting – "Forward" 83
• Shooting – "Found" 84
• Shooting – "Frenchman" 85
• Shooting – "Friendly" 85
• Shooting – "George's" 86
• Shooting – "Going" 87
• Shooting – "Gone" 91
• Shooting – "Great" 92
• Shooting – "Guard" 94
• Shooting – "Guns" 95
• Shooting – "Hand" 97
• Shooting – "Hear" 99
• Shooting – "Heavy" 101
• Shooting – "Help" 102
• Shooting – "Hoped" 102
• Shooting – "Horse" 103
• Shooting – "House" 104
• Shooting – "Idea" 105
• Shooting – "Indians" 105
• Shooting – "Kept" 107
• Shooting – "King" 109
• Shooting – "Knew" 110
• Shooting – "Large" 113
• Shooting – "Lead" 113
• Shooting – "Learning" 114
• Shooting – "Left" 115
• Shooting – "Life" 117
• Shooting – "Little" 118
• Shooting – "Look" 120
• Shooting – "Lost" 123
• Shooting – "Man" 123
• Shooting – "Mean" 133
• Shooting – "Miss" 133
• Shooting – "Morning" 134
• Shooting – "Mother" 135
• Shooting – "Move" 136
• Shooting – "Myself" 137
• Shooting – "Name" 138
• Shooting – "Night" 138
• Shooting – "Nothing" 139
• Shooting – "Numbs" 140
• Shooting – "Occasions" 141
• Shooting – "Old" 142
• Shooting – "Once" 144
• Shooting – "Open" 145
• Shooting – "Ordered" 146
• Shooting – "Others" 148
• Shooting – "Party" 148
• Shooting – "People" 151
• Shooting – "Pistol" 152
• Shooting – "Places" 153
• Shooting – "Police" 155
• Shooting – "Poor" 155
• Shooting – "Practice" 156
• Shooting – "Present" 157
• Shooting – "Quiet" 158
• Shooting – "Reading" 158
• Shooting – "Remembered" 159
• Shooting – "Returned" 160
• Shooting – "Riding" 161
• Shooting – "Rifle" 162
• Shooting – "Ran" 163
• Shooting – "Save" 164
• Shooting – "Shall" 164
• Shooting – "Shot" 166
• Shooting – "Shows" 168
• Shooting – "Sight" 168
• Shooting – "Sir" 169
• Shooting – "Soldiers" 170
• Shooting – "Soon" 171
• Shooting – "Sound" 173
• Shooting – "Speak" 174
• Shooting – "Sport" 174
• Shooting – "Stay" 175
• Shooting – "Succeeded" 176
• Shooting – "Sure" 177
• Shooting – "Talked" 177
• Shooting – "Taught" 178
• Shooting – "Ten" 179
• Shooting – "Thing" 180
• Shooting – "Thoughts" 182
• Shooting – "Thus" 186
• Shooting – "Times" 187
• Shooting – "Tree" 187
• Shooting – "Tries" 188
• Shooting – "Try" 188
• Shooting – "Understand" 189
• Shooting – "Visited" 190
• Shooting – "Walked" 190
• Shooting – "Wanted" 191
• Shooting – "Watch" 192
• Shooting – "Water" 193
• Shooting – "Week" 194
• Shooting – "White" 194
• Shooting – "Wished" 195
• Shooting – "Woman" 196
• Shooting – "Wonder" 196
• Shooting – "Work" 197
• Shooting – "Year" 197
• Shooting – "Young" 199
• Nonfiction Usage 201
• Lyrical Usage 201
• Script Usage 201
• Spoken Usage 205
• Presidential Usage 205
• Bible Usage 205
• Journalism Usage 205
• Legal Usage 367
• Governmental Usage 368
• Encyclopedic Usage 379
• Lexicographic Usage 419
• Index 506