Army Sergeant Sayings

#1. For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

Lina Wertmuller

#2. I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence.

Michael Chabon

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

Dharma Mittra

#4. What's broken, and how do we fix it?

Chip Heath

#5. When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

Nicolas Cage

#6. 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

#7. Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

Maureen Daly

#8. The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and fought.

Richard Bruce Winders

#9. The sergeant is the Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. Every day there were three shifts of police. When they changed shifts, the two troopers would salute the sergeant. Some saluted an army salute, but others saluted like the nazis did in Germany. They held their hands in front of them and clicked their heels.

Assata Shakur

#11. First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe ... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Sophocles

#13. I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

Richard P. Feynman

#14. I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Jack Kirby

#15. And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

John Dryden

#16. Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

Sarah Palin

#17. Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Lord Robertson

#18. I have not gone forward or back in time, but across in time, to something I might have been, playing itself out.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

Tom Lehrer

#20. I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.

Sara Gilbert

#21. No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

John Knox