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You'll never know how high you can soar until you climb inside the cannon. – John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com	added by l_i 7 days ago
We were just thrown to fight like cannon fodder. – Andrei Medvedev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We talk like. There’s no amendment that’s absolute, when the amendment was passed it didn’t say anybody can own a gun, any kind of gun, and any kind of weapon. You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed so there’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons. But that’s another issue. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve never seen somebody run on him yet, i honestly hadn’t caught a throw from him from the outfield. He let it rip, and I was like, ’Wow.' ... He’s got a cannon. That’s why he’s got so many assists and why nobody even challenges him. Now I know why. – Matt Chapman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As Mayor de Blasio of New York City said yesterday… the vaccine is a cannon and the mask is a pea shooter, two shots of an mRNA vaccine are probably 84-85% effective at preventing infection from COVID and over 95% effective at keeping you out of the hospital. – Marc Siegel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I truly, truly believe that [Cannon’s] big brother was there protecting him and making sure that nothing was going to happen to him. – Courtney Buchholtz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Bass praised Cannon for his service in WWII and his fight against injustice that spanned his entire life, from New Orleans where he was born to his time in Los Angeles where he fought to become the first African American member of the PrintersUnion. – African American	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It would have better effect using a water cannon to disperse people and make them go home. – Leong Hoe Nam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is the state where a small band of patriots, at the Battle of Gonzales, armed with a single cannon, stared down a foreign, powerful army and declared, 'Come and Take It,'. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Nick Cannon, Drake, Tyson, all that wasn't sitting right with me. – Kardashian West	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When we find cannons, we’re quite excited because, if we’re allowed to excavate around them, there will be ‘concretions’ of items near the cannon from when the ship sank. – Mark Milburn	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We won't allow the Iraqis to be cannon fodder for the wars of others nor be used in proxy wars outside Iraq, we are proud of our Arab identity. – Jumah Bahadily	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Jennifer Grant is extraordinary in every way, not just spectacularly beautiful, but inwardly majestic, special and kind … I ’m always with Jennifer Grant and the kids … I ’m Actress Dyan Cannon. I ’m not a grandmother, I ’m a gogo because I ’m always on the go. We have an amazing relationship. We’re so honest and real with each other. Sometimes it’s difficult, but most of the time it’s wonderful. – Dyan Cannon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Timing wise, today's missile was a cannon salute on the Day of the Sun, leading up to the party congress, but now that it has failed, it is an embarrassment. – Chang Gwang-il	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is definitely a loose cannon in terms of how he uses his Twitter account, at the same time, he hasn’t been hurt by it yet because apparently a big chunk of what he’s saying is popular among Republican voters. – Micah Sifry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
China is dealing with what is a loose cannon now but might, by attempting to engage in tougher love toward Pyongyang, end up with a client state that is completely unrestrained, then Kim's regime truly is unconstrained and can engage in conduct that is beyond reckless. – Ted Galen Carpenter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching, forces come through their village and grab them and force them into fighting. It's an absolute negation of their basic rights as children, but also as people, not to be treated just as cannon fodder. – Skye Wheeler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Honestly, if it was between him and Hillary Clinton, I'd vote for Hillary Clinton. At least with that, you kind of know what you're dealing with, he's just a loose cannon. – Lisa Bowers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Carson's a lot calmer. He's mellow, I feel like he knows what he's talking about -- whereas Trump is a loose cannon. He gets himself in trouble. – Alex Bennett	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's something so refreshing about shaking up that world that is all about being handled and here comes this loose cannon who has terrible ideas and would be a horrible president, but there's something great about his 'I-don't-give-a-s---' attitude that really kind of keeps others honest, i think it's a surprise benefit to the country, actually. – Bryan Cranston	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some like the bartender dressed up as a pirate, some say it's the cannon on the pirate ship model behind the bar. – Mick Dwyer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Around 100 tonnes of powder, 2.6 million detonators, 99 projectiles and around 3,000 cannon shells were found, the documentation that the captain had in regards to the merchandise that was being transported in the China-flagged vessel did not correspond to what we found. – Luis Gonzalez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is a Queen Anne flintlock, which is a very pretty gun, the barrel looks like a cannon and it has a single shot – you have to actually untwist the barrel to load it – it’s pretty involved to even attempt to load it. But the craftsmanship is from the 1760s, and it’s just magnificent to think that every piece of it was handmade. – Evan Nappen	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet. – Chris Harrison	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

You'll never know how high you can soar until you climb inside the cannon.

– John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com

added by l_i
7 days ago

We were just thrown to fight like cannon fodder.

– Andrei Medvedev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We talk like. There’s no amendment that’s absolute, when the amendment was passed it didn’t say anybody can own a gun, any kind of gun, and any kind of weapon. You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed so there’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons. But that’s another issue.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve never seen somebody run on him yet, i honestly hadn’t caught a throw from him from the outfield. He let it rip, and I was like, ’Wow.' ... He’s got a cannon. That’s why he’s got so many assists and why nobody even challenges him. Now I know why.

– Matt Chapman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As Mayor de Blasio of New York City said yesterday… the vaccine is a cannon and the mask is a pea shooter, two shots of an mRNA vaccine are probably 84-85% effective at preventing infection from COVID and over 95% effective at keeping you out of the hospital.

– Marc Siegel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I truly, truly believe that [Cannon’s] big brother was there protecting him and making sure that nothing was going to happen to him.

– Courtney Buchholtz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Bass praised Cannon for his service in WWII and his fight against injustice that spanned his entire life, from New Orleans where he was born to his time in Los Angeles where he fought to become the first African American member of the PrintersUnion.

– African American

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It would have better effect using a water cannon to disperse people and make them go home.

– Leong Hoe Nam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is the state where a small band of patriots, at the Battle of Gonzales, armed with a single cannon, stared down a foreign, powerful army and declared, 'Come and Take It,'.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nick Cannon, Drake, Tyson, all that wasn't sitting right with me.

– Kardashian West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When we find cannons, we’re quite excited because, if we’re allowed to excavate around them, there will be ‘concretions’ of items near the cannon from when the ship sank.

– Mark Milburn

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We won't allow the Iraqis to be cannon fodder for the wars of others nor be used in proxy wars outside Iraq, we are proud of our Arab identity.

– Jumah Bahadily

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Jennifer Grant is extraordinary in every way, not just spectacularly beautiful, but inwardly majestic, special and kind … I ’m always with Jennifer Grant and the kids … I ’m Actress Dyan Cannon. I ’m not a grandmother, I ’m a gogo because I ’m always on the go. We have an amazing relationship. We’re so honest and real with each other. Sometimes it’s difficult, but most of the time it’s wonderful.

– Dyan Cannon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Timing wise, today's missile was a cannon salute on the Day of the Sun, leading up to the party congress, but now that it has failed, it is an embarrassment.

– Chang Gwang-il

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is definitely a loose cannon in terms of how he uses his Twitter account, at the same time, he hasn’t been hurt by it yet because apparently a big chunk of what he’s saying is popular among Republican voters.

– Micah Sifry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China is dealing with what is a loose cannon now but might, by attempting to engage in tougher love toward Pyongyang, end up with a client state that is completely unrestrained, then Kim's regime truly is unconstrained and can engage in conduct that is beyond reckless.

– Ted Galen Carpenter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching, forces come through their village and grab them and force them into fighting. It's an absolute negation of their basic rights as children, but also as people, not to be treated just as cannon fodder.

– Skye Wheeler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Honestly, if it was between him and Hillary Clinton, I'd vote for Hillary Clinton. At least with that, you kind of know what you're dealing with, he's just a loose cannon.

– Lisa Bowers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Carson's a lot calmer. He's mellow, I feel like he knows what he's talking about -- whereas Trump is a loose cannon. He gets himself in trouble.

– Alex Bennett

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's something so refreshing about shaking up that world that is all about being handled and here comes this loose cannon who has terrible ideas and would be a horrible president, but there's something great about his 'I-don't-give-a-s---' attitude that really kind of keeps others honest, i think it's a surprise benefit to the country, actually.

– Bryan Cranston

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some like the bartender dressed up as a pirate, some say it's the cannon on the pirate ship model behind the bar.

– Mick Dwyer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Around 100 tonnes of powder, 2.6 million detonators, 99 projectiles and around 3,000 cannon shells were found, the documentation that the captain had in regards to the merchandise that was being transported in the China-flagged vessel did not correspond to what we found.

– Luis Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a Queen Anne flintlock, which is a very pretty gun, the barrel looks like a cannon and it has a single shot – you have to actually untwist the barrel to load it – it’s pretty involved to even attempt to load it. But the craftsmanship is from the 1760s, and it’s just magnificent to think that every piece of it was handmade.

– Evan Nappen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet.

– Chris Harrison

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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