"The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant"

-- Justin Cronin

#Military Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes

“Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture”
“Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
“Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.”
“All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.”
“Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.”
“With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.”
“Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.”
“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”

Source : "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.

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