„Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.“

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— Laurence Olivier

On filming Shakespeare, before he did it, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman

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actor británico 1907 - 1989

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„Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.“

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— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

„Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.“

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— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

The Great Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1626/
Last Poems (1936-1939)

„Those big-shot writers … could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.“

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— Mickey Spillane American writer 1918 - 2006

As quoted in The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader (1999) by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, p. 135

„Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….“

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— Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005

Fuente: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

„Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.“

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— Ambrose Bierce American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist 1842 - 1914

Fuente: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), VII

„Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon, of loud noise but little danger.“

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— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=yEA_AQAAMAAJ&q=%22small+debts+are+like+small+shot+they+are+rattling+on+every+side+and+can+scarcely+be+escaped+without+a+wound+great+debts+are+like+cannon+of+loud+noise+but+little+danger%22&pg=PA189#v=onepage to Joseph Simpson, circa 1759
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

„Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows.“

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— Francis Drake English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era 1540 - 1596

Letter to Admiral Henry Seymour, after coming upon part of the Spanish Armada, written aboard the Revenge (31 July 1588 {21 July 1588 O.S.})
Contexto: Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows. … This letter honorable good Lord, is sent in haste. The fleet of Spaniards is somewhat above a hundred sails, many great ships; but truly, I think not half of them men-of-war. Haste.