Shot

Famous quotes containing the word shot:

“Don’t sell the bearskin until you have shot the bear.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.

“What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men—each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature—are shot down wholesale.”
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

“If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
—Venus Williams (b. 1980)