Sonny's Blues Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Between 1793 and 1797, the French would lose 125 warships to Britain's 38, including 35 capital vessels (ships-of-the-line) to Britain's 11, most of the latter the result of fire, accidents and storms rather than French attack.15 The maritime aspect of grand strategy was always one of Napoleon's weaknesses: in all his long list of victories, none was at sea. — Andrew Roberts

I do not have to make the Gospel relevant;
it is always relevant in any part of the world ... [and] I must get the whole Gospel in [every] sermon. — Billy Graham

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart. — Julian Fellowes

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps. — Winston Churchill

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back. — Bill Orcutt

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well. — Kristin Gore

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact. — Donna Leon

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia! — Eugene O'Neill

Powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. — Gene Wolfe