Centcom Quotes

#1. When someone asks whether they have bourbon, the bartender says smugly, 'Yes, of course, James Beam, very good.' " "James Beam. That is

Don DeLillo

#2. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.

David Ignatius

#3. Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

Luther Allison

#4. No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.

Frank Ocean

#5. The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

Buzz Aldrin

#6. How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.

C.S. Lewis

#7. The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

George Herbert

#9. You don't understand - there are things worth dying for!

J.K. Rowling

#10. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings