Being In The Trenches Quotes

#1. If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#2. I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.

Lake Bell

#3. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Salena Godden

#4. But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Ted Rall

#5. Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

Groucho Marx

#6. Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Michael Winter

#7. People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Charles Bukowski

#8. Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

David Suzuki

#9. If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

Bette Davis

#10. I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Joel Edgerton

#11. I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for a cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But I certainly regarded Him as a man; though perhaps I thought that, even in that point, He had an advantage over some of His modern critics.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#13. We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

Fritz Kreisler

#14. Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Cesare Pavese