Bang The Drum Slowly Quotes & Sayings

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous. — Charles Simic

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. — James C. Scott

Woman and children behind the lines!' he yelled, and all the girls jumped. Henry froze with his mouth open. 'Bang the drum slowly and ask not for whom the bell's ringing, for the answer's unfriendly!' He threw a fist in the air. 'Two years have my black ships sat before Troy, and today its gate shall open before the strength of my arm.' Dotty was laughing from the kitchen. Frank looked at his nephew. 'Henry, we play baseball tomorrow. Today we sack cities. Dots! Fetch me my tools! Down with the French! Once more into the breach, and fill the wall with our coward dead! Half a league! Half a league! Hey, batter, batter!'
Frank brought his fist down onto the table, spilling Anastasia's milk, and then he struck a pose with both arms above his head and his chin on his chest. The girls cheered and applauded. Aunt Dotty stepped back into the dining room carrying a red metal toolbox. — N.D. Wilson

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You had as good a chance as I did. I told you everything I saw, as I saw it at the time. And if that was in itself deceptive, remember, I told you that, too: I warned you, right from the beginning, that I lie. — Tana French

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation. — Frank Herbert

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature. — Omar Bongo

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. — Ambrose Bierce

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction. — Condoleezza Rice