"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion."

-- Jessica Savitch

#Car Quotes #Tanks Quotes #Covering Quotes

“They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.”
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
“Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.”

Source : Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”
“I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.”
“It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!”
“Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.”
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
“I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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