Army Platoon Sayings

#1. Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there ... when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes ... you don't know what that's like.

J.K. Rowling

#2. I'm a sorcerer because I start with nothing, and then, eventually, there is something. And I touch you, I move you, I make you laugh or cry, and you believe in what's happening on the screen, although I always show it's invented.

Michel Ocelot

#3. I come back home almost every weekend, or my wife comes up every other weekend to Vancouver. So, in that sense, we make it work. It's just a great city. It's a great country. They've been good to me, and I have no problems being up there.

Michael Trucco

#4. A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

#5. When you deal with human beings, never count on logic or consistency.

Brent Weeks

#6. People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Robbins

#7. INTERVIEWER:
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?

MALAMUD:
Write your heart out.

Bernard Malamud

#8. You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

James Dyson

#9. We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

Diane Ravitch

#10. It always seemed strange to Wormold that he continued to exist for others when he was not there.

Graham Greene