Admiral Halsey Quotes

#1. [Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)

Robert Leckie

#2. The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

Lindsay Davenport

#3. Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.

George S. Clason

#4. I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

#5. They might not love Big Brother, but they knew he was part of the family now.

Tim Weiner

#6. When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.

Faye Kellerman

#7. People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

Manny Montana

#8. If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

Errol Morris

#9. How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

RZA

#10. Humans by nature are pack animals. We take comfort in those around us, and value our worth by how many others deem us important. We struggle to fit in, be like the others.

Teresa Mummert

#11. The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.

A.A. Gill

#12. I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

Terry Pratchett