Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Dubus

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

Chuck Hagel

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Christopher Moore

. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.

Daniel Radcliffe

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Daniel Radcliffe

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

Daniel Radcliffe

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

Daniel Radcliffe

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

Daniel Radcliffe

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

Daniel Berrigan

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Daniel Craig

There are things about guys who are in the army. They're very particular, they have to be.

Dustin Hoffman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Donald Trump

To all those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.

Donald Trump

We're gonna build up our forces, including the Army.

Donald Trump

The size of the Army, absolutely it's getting too small.

Donald Trump

You're gonna get the best - you're gonna get the best equipment [in the Army].

Anthony de Mello

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

Amy Chua

The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Ambrose Bierce

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Ambrose Bierce

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

Ben Roethlisberger

That was one where my mind was telling me to throw it over the top and my arm didn't throw it over the top. I read it right, I just didn't throw it good.

Mark Twain

That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

Mark Twain

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

E. P. Thompson

I was paralyzed, had no right arm at all,

Tom Watson

I was on the phone with Marsha, who said the doctor had diagnosed him with ALS. I said, 'Gosh, my fears are realized.' When Bruce got on the phone, he said, 'Well, I just made a quad.' You guys know what that means. That's how he just kind of brushed it off. I said, 'Yeah, but we're going to get back to even par.' Whenever somebody came up to put their arm around him and say they were sorry, Bruce would say, 'Don't be sorry, I can deal with it,' and then put them off with some sort of joke about the Eagles or how bad the Cowboys were.

I was one of those guys he'd sit down with and put his arm around. We talked.... Until you messed up a few times. Then it was different.

I was beating him 2-1 and was taking him down and that probably made it 4-1, but in the process he got hurt. He posted on his arm the wrong way and his elbow came out of place. I saw that, and ... I didn't like that.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

I wasn't sure if we were going to run the clock out or go for it. And he gave me the play. I was trying to loosen my arm up in the huddle a little bit. I just threw it up to Kevin and Kevin made a great play.

I would literally give up my right arm to talk to Felipe Alou.

Ciaran Hinds

Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

Alfred de Vigny

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.