1814 Burning Quotes & Sayings

Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds. — William Shakespeare

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination. — Alison Krauss

No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead
on the morning of October 6;
no one knew it was.
Like the bodies of previous days
it retained every semblace of life — Stephen King

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything. — Matthew Lillard

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories. — Gordon Bell

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense. — Steve Prefontaine

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders. — Radhanath Swami

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt. — Michael Faraday

'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. — Peter Dinklage

It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German. — Markus Zusak

Far more demoralizing to Americans than British operations in New England was their invasion of the Chesapeake. In 1814 London officials ordered Major General Robert Ross "to effect a diversion on the coasts of the United States of America in favor of the army employed in the defence of Upper and Lower Canada." At the same time, Prevost, who was angry over the burning of Dover and other depredations in Upper Canada, asked Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane to "assist in inflicting that measure of retaliation which shall deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages."104 The British had successfully targeted the Chesapeake in 1813, and both Ross and Cochrane regarded it the best place to achieve their goals in 1814. The bay's extensive shoreline remained exposed, and the region's two most important cities - Washington and Baltimore - offered inviting targets. — Donald R. Hickey

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda

Bear. It's always been you. It will always be you. I love you, and that's why it will always be enough. — T.J. Klune

Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense
last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well. — Elizabeth Jane Howard