Donald Ross Quotes & Sayings

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news. — Steven Pinker

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. — Eugene Ionesco

My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle

A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds. — John Connolly

You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing. — Garth Stein

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings. — Rollo May

I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure. — Sebastian Coe

Short people, tall people, people with glasses, the bottom line is son, I'll whoop all their asses — Stone Cold Steve Austin

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going. — David Ohle

We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere. — Billy Joel

Far more demoralizing to Americans than British operations in New England was their invasion of the Chesapeake. In 1814 London officials ordered Major General Robert Ross "to effect a diversion on the coasts of the United States of America in favor of the army employed in the defence of Upper and Lower Canada." At the same time, Prevost, who was angry over the burning of Dover and other depredations in Upper Canada, asked Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane to "assist in inflicting that measure of retaliation which shall deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages."104 The British had successfully targeted the Chesapeake in 1813, and both Ross and Cochrane regarded it the best place to achieve their goals in 1814. The bay's extensive shoreline remained exposed, and the region's two most important cities - Washington and Baltimore - offered inviting targets. — Donald R. Hickey