William C. Oates Quotes
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
-
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
-
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
-
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
-
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
-
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
-
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
-
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
-
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
-
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
-
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
-
The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
-
In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
-
There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
-
'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
-
The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.
-
Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
-
Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
-
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
-
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.
-
My favorite place is where I live in Jacksonville.
-
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
-
Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.
-
My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
