Ernie Pyle Quotes

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

Ernie Pyle

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• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Hamburger
  • Snack

• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Story

• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • World
  • Team
  • Brilliant

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Impossible

• The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Line
  • Demarcation

• Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Values
  • Wells
  • Dignity

• To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Read

• I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Poet

• You okay?" "Fine." "Your heart's beating really fast." "Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it." He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff. "Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if there's trouble." "You sound like Shane." "Well, he did say he'd kill me if I got you hurt. I'm just looking after my own neck." "Liar.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Heart
  • She
  • Hurt

• He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • God
  • Night
  • Alone

• One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Treasure
  • Dug Up

• Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Kill
  • Swinging