James Longstreet Quotes

As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

James Longstreet

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Actor
  • Influences
  • Were

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

  

  Halsey
  • Alone
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • People
  • Want
  • Outdoors

• 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Me
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • You
  • Humility

• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Good
  • Me
  • I Can

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Market

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Loved
  • Percent

• Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • You
  • Never

• I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • College
  • Band
  • Guitar

• I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

  

  Kaskade
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Memories

• I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Business

• I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Book
  • Black
  • Poetry

• In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Artist

• Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

  

  Regina Hall
  • Sometimes
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.

  

  James Longstreet