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  • Once a gunner, always a gunner -- Cesc Fabregas
  • sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner -- Karen Kingsbury
  • I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard. -- Jay Watson
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  • The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
  • The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. -- Barney Ross
  • I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. -- William Kidd
  • Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn, -- Che Guevara
  • Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner. -- Graves B. Erskine
  • The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made. -- Phillips Brooks
  • The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. -- E. B. White
  • No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts. -- Dave Champion
  • When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves. -- Nick Cohen
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