Shot Backs

Famous quotes containing the words shot and/or backs:

“Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel with their backs to the engine. Peace can have but few corners softly padded enough for such sensitives.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)