Beachhead Quotes

#1. Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

Matt Damon

#2. Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost ... perhaps even the war.

Ken Follett

#3. Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Tullian Tchividjian

#4. If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

Jodi Picoult

#5. From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

Douglas MacArthur

#6. You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.

Maryam Faresh

#7. I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

Rita Mae Brown

#8. The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

Bradford Cox

#9. It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

Dusty Springfield

#10. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

Sol Luckman

#11. Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Henry Selick

#12. I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

Bertie Carvel