"A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers."

-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Mother Quotes #War Quotes #Father Quotes

“I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.”
“I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.”

Source : Song: In Dreams
“I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.”
“Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our bodies. And there are much better ways to control our behavior than that rather extraordinary use of guilt.”
“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.”
“I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.”

Source : "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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