Cannonballs Quotes:

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Real, Cannonballs

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

- Charles V of France

topic: War, Names, Emperor, Cannonballs

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

- Gene Siskel

topic: Running, Facts, Used, Cannonballs, Worst Movie

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Kings, People, Paving The Way, Cannonballs, Paving

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.21, Booklassic

topic: Purple, Soldier, Becoming, Cannonballs

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

topic: Humorous, Men, Caliber, Cannonballs

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

- Damien Rice

source: "Song: 'Cannonball'". 2002.

topic: Break Up, Lying, Fall, Cannonballs

Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Flying, Burritos, Wells, Cannonballs, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Jesus, Light, Two, Cannonballs

"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

- Robert Glasper

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Song, People, Lasts, Cannonballs, Rolls Royce

One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Running, Finals, Use, Cannonballs, Bloopers

When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.

- Christian McBride

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Diversity, Cannonballs, Zappa

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named 'Bambi', 'Infant', 'Daisycutter', 'Grasshopper', and 'Agent Orange'. Nor is the trend new: from the past we have 'Mustard Gas'', 'Angel Chasers' (two cannonballs linked with a chain for added destruction) and 'The Peacemaker' to name but a few.)

- Paul Dickson

source: "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

topic: Angel, Past, Names, Horrific, Cannonballs

There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground.

- Chase Iron Eyes

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Army, Rivers, People, Cannonballs, United States Army

The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

- Brock Yates

topic: Running, Pride, Bridges, Cannonballs, Old Jokes

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

- Kenny G

topic: College, Listening, Jazz, Grover, Cannonballs

Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Slender, Cannonballs, Physically Fit