Akpan Utuk Quotes

#1. War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Herman Wouk

#2. Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Burnett wasn't fooled, that was aparent by his expression, but he didn't argue, either. Well, as long as one didn't call slamming the door an argument.
"Jerk" Holiday muttered.
"I can hear you" he retorted from the other side of the wall.

C.C. Hunter

#4. My health and my family are the core of my being.

Jon Bon Jovi

#5. There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

#6. The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

Louis Bacon

#7. I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

Annie Lennox

#8. I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

Richard Artschwager

#9. I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

Patti Scialfa

#10. The third board popped off. The opening was now big enough to squeeze through. The dogs in town were barking hysterically.

Douglas Preston

#11. I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Daniel Handler

#12. I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Gwendoline Christie

#13. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli

#14. There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures ... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.

John Loengard