Balkanism Quotes

#1. It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

A.J. Liebling

#2. The whole world is run on bluff.

Marcus Garvey

#3. How could we [the world] have stood by and let that happen to them? We owe them.

Carroll S. Walsh Jr.

#4. Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

Marty Turco

#5. There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Ken Follett

#6. Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow- whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!

Ford Madox Ford