Opening Shot

Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or shot:

“The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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