Ernie Pyle Quotes

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

Ernie Pyle

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

  

  E. L. James
  • Friends
  • Television
  • Finish

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strong
  • Strength
  • Others

• A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Personality

• It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Friends
  • Confidence

• In the desert a fountain is springing,In the wide waste there still is a tree,And a bird in the solitude singing,Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Singing
  • Tree
  • Bird

• The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God

• Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• 'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Truth

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

  

  Shakira
  • Food

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Hand

• Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Ideas
  • Vision
  • Minds

• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Night
  • Fire
  • London