Orale Quotes & Sayings

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. — Carl Sandburg

A veteran reporter knows there is a disconnect between how an event in a region is experienced and the way it is perceived in distant capitals. He sends dispatches about violent insurrections, riots and clashes, and feels his words loom large in his mind, then become small, minuscule, in the sending,until eventually he discovers that none of his reporting produces more than a twinge or yawn in the wider world. — Kyo Maclear

Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be. — Robin Hobb

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up. — Woody Harrelson

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from. — Henry Rollins

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag ... they fight for one another. — Hal Moore