
“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”
Quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 51.
Attributed
"Introduction: Thinkability"
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”
Quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 51.
Attributed
Eubanks new message to the new Prime Minster http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6679611.stm
“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger
“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Book I, epistle xviii, line 71
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
“I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain.”
Pt. I, ch. 2
Confession (1882)
Context: I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain. I killed people in war, challenged men to duels with the purpose of killing them, and lost at cards; I squandered the fruits of the peasants' toil and then had them executed; I was a fornicator and a cheat. Lying, stealing, promiscuity of every kind, drunkenness, violence, murder — there was not a crime I did not commit... Thus I lived for ten years.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.
Speaking to an aide, quoted by Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy?