Recapitulated Report Quotes & Sayings

Dream big, work hard, stay humble. — Brad Meltzer

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. — Sebastian Coe

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime. — James Carroll

It was a ludicrous notion, born of panic, but no panic is ludicrous in its particular moment. Panic possesses its own logical integrity. — Rick Yancey

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. — Michael Clarke Duncan

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. — George Orwell

But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do. — Catherynne M Valente

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface. — David Cobley

I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"I'm sorry that I didn't trust you. I'm sorry I doubted your intentions."
"I think you're sorry you got caught. Oh, and, Gemma? You should always doubt my intentions. — Ella Frank

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. — Nikolai Grozni

There are pigs like me that wallow in their destiny, not drawing away from the banality of daily life because they're enthralled by their own impotence. — Fernando Pessoa

How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment. — Saint John Chrysostom