"... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires."

“If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.”

“I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. But don't look too much into it.”

Source : "NASCAR Probing Possible Race Rigging at Chase for the Sprint Cup" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. September 9, 2013.

“(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

“Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty..”

“Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.”

“I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.”

Source : Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

“No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub

“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.”