Skirmishers Quotes & Sayings

Then, just as d'Alembord was about to sell his commission and retire to one of his prospective father-in-law's farms, Napoleon had returned to France. Colonel Ford, worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers, had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion. That enticement was sufficient. The captaincy would sell for fifteen hundred pounds which was a good enough fortune for any young man contemplating marriage, but a majority would fetch two thousand six hundred pounds, and so d'Alembord, with some misgivings, but reassured by the prospects of a fine marriage portion, had agreed to Ford's request. — Bernard Cornwell

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away. — Mel Tillis

Style is to forget all styles. — Jules Renard

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. — James Patterson

A country needs to be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself. — Mike Huckabee

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. — David Edelstein

The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to — Seneca.

I'm fighting and I'm winning and I'm living. The full package. — Charlie Higson

I'd rather have my nipples chewed of by a pack of wild dogs than go out with you, Tug. — K.J. Bell

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found ... Angling's problems are never solved. — Lee Wulff

They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive. — John Buford

seriously. "Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything.

-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything — Nicola Yoon

I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements ... producing ... developing a half-hour sitcom ... working on a movie ... leading acting workshops all over the world ... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women. — Tasha Smith

The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia. — Mark Durie

May the Code replicate eternal. — Amanda Orneck