Quotes & Sayings About The 442nd

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it. — Bobby Fischer

We belong to each other now, the beast declares as it grabs my limp body and takes me up into the darkness. — Frankie Ash

I find this day Stands in the way Of finding you Beneath the blue — Vickie Johnstone

Crown made my belly flutter even when I begged it to stop.
Until he opened his mouth.
When Crown opened his mouth, I wanted to bust him over the head with a lasagna pan. — Lila Felix

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am definitely most proud of 'American Dreams.' — Tom Verica

Before I die, I want to fight for life. — Paulo Coelho

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary? — Paul Auster

Girls in my school were always prettier. — Bridget Hall

You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good. — Robert Penn Warren

It's no longer a question of can I do it. It's a question of: Do I want to do it? — Brene Brown

I would let you stay the night and then have you for breakfast, Gary said. — T.J. Klune

What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by the decision of the court? Much of the resistance, it appears, derives from a conservative anxiety that equity equates to "leveling." The fear that comes across in many of the letters and the editorials in the New Jersey press is that democratizing opportunity will undermine diversity and even elegance in our society and that the best schools will be dragged down to a sullen norm, a mediocre middle ground of uniformity. References to Eastern European socialism keep appearing in these letters. — Jonathan Kozol