Butilbrometo Quotes & Sayings

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. — Dexter Filkins

But here's an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too. — Sean Platt

...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation. — Jose Sevilla Ho

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us. — John Scalzi

Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from boats with eyes painted on the bows. It is overcrowded, prey to floods and sweatshops, dotted by modern cities and tiny hamlets of thatched huts with TV antennae. It is not a great capital of industry, or an international oil field or bread basket. There is nothing in Vietnam, now, that America truly needs. And there was even less thirty years ago. This country, these people, posed no real threat to us. It was a strange place to send our youth - not to learn a new culture or to enjoy the beaches, but to kill and be killed, to be maimed and to patch up the maimed. I am convinced that, to our government, Vietnam really, truly Didn't Mean Nothing. — Susan O'Neill

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. — Herman Melville

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts. — Dennis Miller

I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all. — Sandor Marai

I love action movies. — Adam McKay

For me, there is safety in playing a woman that is very sexualized and having a woman direct you with that. — Juno Temple

A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it. — J.L. King

Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good things. — Meredith Wild

I must go where I am bound to go, and turn my back on the bright shores. I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It smelt of coconut ice cream and sweat and the Mediterranean sea. I — Deborah Levy