John Keegan Quotes

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Emotion
  • Performance
  • Impact

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Secret
  • Ever

• My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Space
  • Brain
  • Busy

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Ambiguity

• I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Artist

• I'm a travel enthusiast.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Travel
  • Enthusiast

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

  

  Jack Levine
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Stop

• Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Silence
  • Lawyer

• The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Good

• I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other.

  

  John McEnroe
  • People

• I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Men
  • Prayer
  • Accepting

• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

  

  James Bovard
  • People

• The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

  

  Plato
  • Gods
  • Point
  • First Wish

• It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Body

• I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

  

  John Keegan
  • Mountain