Opening Shot

Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or shot:

    “The next work of Carlyle will be entitled “Bow-Wow,” and the title-page will have a motto from the opening chapter of the Koran: “There is no error in this Book.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    “Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?—Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)