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“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know.”
Groucho Marx
“There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.”
Winston Churchill
“The good shine from afarLike the snowy Himalayas.The bad don't appearEven when near,Like arrows shot into the night.”
Buddha
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob."”
Jack Handy
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin
“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”
Charles Lindbergh
“Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.”
J. D. Salinger
“The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.”
Nikita Khrushchev