William Manchester Quotes
One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.
William Manchester
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Harold Pinter
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
Kat Graham
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey
Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
Ian MacKaye
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
Cynthia Ozick
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
Alex Gibney
These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.
Elizabeth Kolbert
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
David Liss
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.
William Manchester
