Halberstam Korean Quotes & Sayings

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art. — David Lodge

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try. — Giuseppe Verdi

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. — Robert Fortune

Nothing matters. — Leonard Woolf

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. — Jean Cocteau

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. — Peter Atkins

Why the hell would anyone be eating at the Grease Trap? I've seen flies die from buzzing by that place." Andrea crossed her arms. "Oh, I don't know, probably because your career just ended and you are depressed and don't feel like breathing, let alone going out, but your body still needs food and that's the closest place to your apartment and they don't mind if you bring a giant dog with you." "What, you couldn't find a Dumpster that was closer?" Andrea glared at me. "What are you implying?" "The Dumpster would have better food in it." "Well, excuse me, Miss Fine Dining. — Ilona Andrews

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. — Howard Gordon

Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for my real self, like someone could just reach over and pinch me and I'd deflate. I thought I was feeling better, but I don't know anymore. — Amy Reed

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter. — Stephen Fry

We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are. — Nenia Campbell

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business. — David Halberstam

It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, or his ability to scare the living shit out of even very large professional baseball players. — Michael Lewis

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. — Paul Goodman