Hollow Point Bullet

Famous quotes containing the words hollow, point and/or bullet:

    “Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I have not made a study of it, but believe that it is a minor point in the history of the war.”
    —Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928)

    “Consider his life which was valueless
    In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
    Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
    Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
    On the death of one so young and so silly
    Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)