"The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink."

-- Duke of Wellington

#War Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“Iâ€™m not a brain surgeon, Iâ€™m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and thatâ€™s a pretty important task.”
“I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.”
“When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2010). “The Last Resort”, p.48, Random House
“The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.”
“Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.”
“The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.”

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