Battle Of Salamis Quotes

#1. Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.

John Steinbeck

#2. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

John Tillotson

#3. Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

Kara Swisher

#5. I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Steven Wright

#6. As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Ackroyd

#7. The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#8. As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#9. Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

John C. Maxwell

#10. In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.

Jacqueline Rose

#11. It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.

Macy Gray

#12. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. I pick up the thin, delicate silver chain that has a flat bar that horizontally connects the chain together. I see that the bar is etched with tiny letters that scribe: And though she be but little, she is fierce

E.K. Blair