Famous quotes containing the words lead and/or bullet:
“An error the breadth of a single hair can lead one a thousand miles astray.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)