"Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show"

“We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

“If you must make a noise, make it quietly.”

“You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

“I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.”

“Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.”

“Everything looks better with my eyes closed.”

Source : Song: Every Night I Wake Up Screaming, 2004

“Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.”