Durwood Zaelke Quotes & Sayings

Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper. — Erik Larson

I did another commercial. Don't lose your loved ones, I wrote, because of excessive radioactivity. Don't be a wallflower at the dance because of strontium 90 in your bones. Don't be a victim of fallout. When the tart on Thirty-sixth Street gives you the big eye does your body stride off in one direction and your imagination in another? Does your mind follow her up the stairs and taste her wares in revolting detail while your flesh goes off to Brooks Brothers or the foreign exchange desk of the Chase Manhattan Bank? Haven't you noticed the size of the ferns, the lushness of the grass, the bitterness of the string beans, and the brilliant makings on the new breeds of butterflies? You have been inhaling lethal atomic waste for the last twenty-five years and only Elixircol can save you. — John Cheever

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before. — Thomas C. Foster

I'd learned from experience hoping for the impossible just ended in heartbreak — Carey Corp

I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects. — Larry Charles

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Grendel waved his tail. Whatever horrors happened in his canine life, Grendel always bounced back with easy enthusiasm whenever some food made an appearance. A treat, a blanket in a nice warm house, an occasional pat on the head, and Grendel would be as happy as he could be. If only people were so easy. — Ilona Andrews

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? — Edgar Bergen

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I am Caesar not Rex — Gaius Julius Caesar

I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me ... — Madonna Ciccone

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here. — B.W. Powe

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us. — Maisie Williams

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.' — Barry Goldwater

Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. — Charles Lamb