Jimmy Cross The Things They Carried Quotes & Sayings

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. — Norman Mailer

What a wonderful description. — Deyth Banger

There's not much we can do except to be, and in being, become aware. — Richard Hunt

Joe's presence was a comfort but also a nagging reminder of what it meant to be accountable to someone else, how easy it was to lose myself if people weren't ever-present. He was to me what I needed from a man who wanted nothing from me. — Melissa Grunow

'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves. — Florence Welch

The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere. — Caedmon

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime. — Ian MacKaye

IF ANYONE DESERVES TO CARRY A GRUDGE, IT'S CHRIST. BUT INSTEAD, HE CARRIED A CROSS. — Jimmy Wayne

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun. — Isaac Newton

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. — Tim O'Brien

For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly. — Grigoris Deoudis

The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught. — Elizabeth Coleman