"Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off."

-- Wesley Pruden

#Military Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.”
“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...”
“In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.”
“Everything is known through its opposite.”
“Never lose a holy curiosity.”
“The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.”
“I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.”

Source : William Inge (1958). “Four Plays”, p.9, Grove Press
“I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.”

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