Gun Hill Road

Famous quotes containing the words gun, hill and/or road:

    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)

    The fact that Romans once inhabited her reflects no little dignity on Nature herself; that from some particular hill the Roman once looked out on the sea.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The road to wisdom?—Well, it’s plain
    and simple to express:
    Err
    and err
    and err again
    but less
    and less
    and less.
    Piet Hein (b. 1905)