"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."

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Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

Ernie Pyle

#Two Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Bees Quotes

“Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.”

Source : Marie Chapian (1997). “A Confident, Dynamic You: Ten Keys to Moving from I Can't to I Can”, Vine Books
“I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.”
“.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.”

Source : Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.20, Harper Collins
“Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.”
“The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”

Source : "Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt".
“President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.”
“When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.”

Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.”

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