Boussac Marcel Quotes & Sayings

he found the general seated on a log, quite motionless, with his eyes closed. His cap, as usual, was pulled down to his nose. Hampton gave Jackson his report and volunteered to lead an advance over his new bridge. To Hampton's complete amazement, the general did not speak, nor did he even move. He "sat in silence for some time, then rose and walked off in silence." Jackson later was found prostrate and asleep underneath a tree, in spite of the daylong artillery battle that was screaming overhead. He seemed almost perfectly passive. When Longstreet sent an aide to him asking for his help, Jackson replied that he could do nothing. He later fell into such a deep sleep that his aides had trouble waking him. He fell asleep at dinner with a biscuit between his teeth. When he was awakened, he suddenly seemed to come to his senses, saying, "Now, gentlemen, let us at once to bed, and rise with the dawn, and see if tomorrow we cannot do something. — S.C. Gwynne

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it. — James Blunt

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. — James Baldwin

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime. — Marie Corelli

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it. — Pete Carroll

We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to LIVE. — George Mallory

Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms. — Anthony Doerr