Yellow Birds Kevin Powers Quotes & Sayings

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable. — George Packer

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. — Kevin Brownlow

He's incredibly perfect in his very nature of existing. He's perfect in his uniqueness. He burns so bright. So bright at times he hurts my eyes. Makes my heart ache from his grace. — Sarah Noffke

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. — William Hazlitt

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are. — Debbie Ford

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so. — Kevin Powers

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented. — Joe Torre

Two people do not really live together until their books become one library. You have known just how to classify your own - books you have had, some of them since you were eleven years old. Strange now to have them adapting themselves to the books of some one else - these two life-histories becoming one, two pasts uniting. — Susan Glaspell

Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft of acting. If you have a real passion for it and acting is what you want to do every day, you are much more likely to be successful. If being a star is your primary goal, you may end up being very disappointed. — Donna Mills

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers. — Ralph Lauren

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. — Chaka Khan

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. — Mariel Hemingway

J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. — Khaled Hosseini

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing. — Kellin Quinn