Quinn On Homeland Quotes & Sayings

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches - signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.

Not your typical holiday destination.

JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this - among other - notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it. — Joanna Campbell

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. — Gayle Forman

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. — Albert Einstein

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration. — Tracy Chapman

Someday I will succeed in my dream. Someday I will overcome my fears. As for me in this current moment though, I must just carry on. — Isabel Aanya Leigh

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. — Mao Zedong

This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA. — Ray Anyasi

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16 ... It was all right. — Adam Lambert

People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine. — Archibald Marwizi

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack. — Sally Quinn

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. — Baltasar Gracian