Famous quotes containing the word shot:
“Dont sell the bearskin until you have shot the bear.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.
“My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isnt just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where youve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words arent only bombs and bulletsno, theyre little gifts, containing meanings!”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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