Erik Larson Quotes

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Sacrifice

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Men
  • History
  • Destiny

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Men
  • Money
  • War

• I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Criticism

• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • World
  • Men
  • Decision

• I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Men
  • Love
  • Think

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • War

• I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

  

  Mark Alan Webber
  • Up
  • Together
  • Hate

• I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • World
  • God
  • History

• What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

  

  William Gibson
  • Culture
  • Rain
  • Danger

• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mean
  • Suffering
  • Forget

• She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

  

  Jane Austen
  • She
  • Famous
  • King

• Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Men
  • Eye
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