Machine Gun Position

Famous quotes containing the words machine, gun and/or position:

    “The chrysanthemums’ astringent fragrance comes
    Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
    Of machine within machine within machine.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say ‘you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.’”
    —David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Al Capone (Robert DeNiro)

    “When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist who is asked if he is a “Newtonian” or if he is a “Pasteurian.””
    —Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928–67)