"I was very much a child of the Cold War."

-- Justin Cronin

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Cold Quotes

“I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.”

Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.”
“I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

Source : 1917 Speech, US Senate.
“Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.”
“It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.”
“There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.”

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