"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance..."

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Source : John Sedgwick's final words said by him to his men who were ducking for cover at the battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

John Sedgwick

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“New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.”
“It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching 'SVU.' It's funny. And it's always the reruns.”

Source : "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview with Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
“I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.”
“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield
“And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.”

Source : Joe Meno (2012). “Office Girl”, p.167, Akashic Books
“Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.”
“Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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