Calley Quotes & Sayings

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one. — Sting

can a criminal, using the knowledge of forensic science to his own advantage, reduce his percentage of detection in order to commit the perfect murder? If a criminal knew exactly what investigators were looking for at a crime scene, could they use that to avoid detection? — David Elio Malocco

A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was. — George Eliot

Take my word for it, Calley. You have to be careful what you love because love has to be paid for. — Tabitha King

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. — Nick Denton

The only American soldier convicted in the [My Lai Massacre in Vietnam], Lieutenant William Calley, served three months under house arrest. What the massacre drove home to me was that Oriental life was not terribly valuable. You could extinguish hundreds of Orientals - unarmed villagers, farmers, women, toddlers, infants - and the penalty would be napping and watching television in your apartment for twelve weeks. — Alex Tizon

What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep all away. — Erich Maria Remarque

My people always tol' me, 'You can stay in Hell a little while, long as you know you're gettin' out. — Lisa Patton

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you. — Salman Rushdie

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. — Bob Schieffer

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life. — Brendan Coyle

Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed away as the thoughts of books, pages, and comfort entered my head. — Rebecca Maizel

There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it. — Greg James

Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story. — Bill Wittliff