He must have been a marvellously good shot.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
On hearing that an impresario he disliked had blown his brains out.  Attributed.

For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame, And be shot at for sixpence a day.

-Diaz, Porfirio
  'Charity'.

A long shot,Watson; a very long shot!

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,'Silver Blaze'.

   By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard around the world.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  'Concord Hymn', opening lines. This poem was sung on 4  Jul1837 at the dedication of the monument commemorating the battle of19  Apr1775.

Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

Beauty pains, and when it pained most, I shot.

-Haas, Ernst Bernard
  In Life,1  Aug.'The Glow of Paris'.

I shot an arrow in the air. She fell to earth in Berkeley Square.

-Hamer, Robert
  Kind Hearts and Coronets (with  John Dighton).

   When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. Theyare all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Winner Take Nothing,'Fathers and Sons'.

The Mountjoy began to move, and soon passed safe through the broken stakes and floating spars.But her brave master was no more. A shot from one of the batteries had struck him; and he died by the most enviable of all deaths, in sight of the city which was his birthplace, which was his home, and which had just been saved by his courage and self-devotion from the most frightful form of destruction.

-1st Baron
  History of England, on the relief of Londonderry, vol.2, ch.12.

But he was never, well, What I call A Sportsman: For forty days He went out into the desert öAnd never shot anything.

-Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert
  Of Jesus Christ.'Old Fashioned Sportsmen'.

La politique au milieu des inte¤  re"  ts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. Politics mixed with the imagination is like a shot fired in the middle of a concert.

-Stendhal pseudonym of  Henri Beyle
  Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.22.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn,'Notice'.

He used to be a big shot.

-Wald,Jerry
  The words of Panama Smith (Gladys George) as Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) dies on the steps of the church in The RoaringTwenties.With Richard Macauley and Robert Rossen.

What would it pleasure me, to have my throat cut With diamonds? Or to be smothered With cassia? Or to be shot to death, with pearls?

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.