Army Drill Sayings

#1. Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.

Nicola Yoon

#2. I... do... not... do... lightning.

Ridley Pearson

#3. The neighbors are neglecting their exotic birds.

Jennifer Close

#4. Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Knowledge is air to the wise.
Wisdom is poison to a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

Ranulph Fiennes

#8. There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

Courtney M. Privett

#9. Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#11. Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Howard Nemerov

#12. Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams.

Renford Reese

#13. I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

Dharma Mittra