General Pickett Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess. — Robert Downey Jr.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they're doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown. — Andy Warhol

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' — Ezra Taft Benson

I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories. — Jeanne McElvaney

Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to apologize in general from time to time and let people know he meant well and then to shove off and hope for the best. He apologized and departed, curls ajiggle. — Michael Shaara

What is it? something you live and breathe in like air? a kind of vacuum filled with wraithlike and indomitable anger and pride and glory at and in happenings that occurred and ceased fifty years ago? a kind of entailed birthright father and son and father and son of never forgiving General Sherman, so that forevermore as long as your childrens' children produce children you wont be anything but a descendant of a long line of colonels killed in Pickett's charge at Manassas? 'Gettysburg,' Quentin said. 'You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner

General Lee, I have no division. — George Pickett

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization? — John Green

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off. — James Longstreet