Patton Tanks Quotes & Sayings

There is only one thing worse than arguing with a drunk,' Faradan Sort said, 'and that's arguing with a drunk who's right. — Steven Erikson

Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty. — Patricia Briggs

When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life? — Steve Maraboli

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential. — David Talbot

In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it. — Michael Parenti

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried? — Piers Anthony

-Have I ever told you that you're beautiful?
-Any time I offer you food.
-Exactly. Gimme that. — Sarina Bowen

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. — William Butler Yeats

The Russian general is used to such supplicant behavior. During the war, he ordered his troops to shoot any of their comrades who ran from the Germans, and any Russian village that was thought to have collaborated with the Nazis was burned to the ground. Zhukov is so feared that other Russian generals have been known to tremble in his presence. Patton does not tremble. "He was in full dress uniform much like comic opera and covered in medals," Patton later wrote to Beatrice of Zhukov. "He is short, rather fat and has a prehensile chin like an ape but good blue eyes." As Russian tanks rolled past the reviewing stand, Patton noticed Zhukov gloating over the new Soviet IS-3 model — Bill O'Reilly

Roddy the assistant manager lived in the theater. He'd emptied out one of the supply closets. He'd installed an inflatable mattress, a Shower Anywhere portable shower, and a wee television. He slept amid the powdered-butter fumes and empty drink-syrup tanks. He had grub-white skin and Goth circles under his eyes that, unlike those of Goths, came from really, truly existing half in the world of the dead. He smelled like carpeting, Scotch tape, and steak sauce. He was almost forty but had one of those half mustaches that thirteen-year-olds have. He was the closest thing to a zombie I've yet encountered in this world. — Patton Oswalt

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think? — Patricia Highsmith

Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them? — Truman Capote

Is it something I said?" Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all. — Courtney Milan

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas. — George S. Patton

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you. — Richard Linklater

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane. — George S. Patton

...the thought of *never again* felt like death. — Robin Black

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact. — Robert M. Hensel