Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Siegfried Sassoon

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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Terrible
  • Suspense

• I don't watch much television.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Television
  • Watch
  • Much

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Lies
  • Kiss

• Callas? She was pure electricity.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • She

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Strange
  • Guidance
  • Sail

• 'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Human
  • Controversial
  • The Killers

• The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Death
  • Strong

• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Death

• Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Priests
  • Magistrates
  • Gowns

• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  

  Siegfried Sassoon
  • Death
  • Land
  • Soldiers