"From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course."

-- Manny Farber

#Sweet Quotes #Golf Quotes #Men Quotes

“Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said”
“Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.”

Source : Joseph J. Ellis (2004). “His Excellency: George Washington”, p.41, Vintage
“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
“If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”
“Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.”
“I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.”
“I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.”
“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky”

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