"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards sadism and brutality ... Not only did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around someone's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way."

-- Paul Fussell

#War Quotes #Nice Quotes #Piano Quotes

“If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.”
“From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.”
“Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself”
“One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.”
“The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab”
“What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.”

Source : "'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'". Interview with Matt Donnelly, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 14, 2010.
“You can't do comedy with a beard.”
“Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.”

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