"After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches."

-- Russell Baker

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.”

Source : W. E. B. Griffin (1982). “Brotherhood of war, book 1: the lieutenants”
“the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?”
“I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.”
“Don't disarrange my circles!”
“There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."”
“Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.”
“Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.”
“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.”

Source : "Annie of Tharaw" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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