Daegan Miller Quotes & Sayings

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. — Richard Ford

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy. — Sebastian Junger

I like to chew candles. — J.D. Salinger

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause. — Blaise Pascal

She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out — Saira Viola

As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking. — Sharon Waxman

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. — Marilyn Hacker

If we are going to approach the euro area as a zone with a harsh line in the middle between AAA and non-AAA, between the north and the south, no way are we going to move forward. — Jeroen Dijsselbloem

He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true. — Rose Tremain

The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit. — Anne Sexton

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris? — Frank Zappa

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be. — Romario

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut. — Haifaa Al-Mansour

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. — Euripides

We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls ... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity ... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people. — Adolf Hitler