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
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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.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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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.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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.
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
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With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.
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I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.
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I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.
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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
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I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.
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Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.
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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.
