Clammed Up Quotes

#1. I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. She stopped to think. "Twice. It happened so quick. Rob was just trying to warn Dean, but he accidentally hit him." "What did you do?" "Well, Dean fell down and started bleeding all over the stairs. I started freaking out. Rob was freaking out. We didn't know what to do." She clammed up all

J.R. Kendall

#3. More often than not, your best move is to keep quiet.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions ... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.

Dennis Prager

#5. No one ever said life was fair

Nicholas Sparks

#6. You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

Saku Koivu

#7. Pray for strength to preserve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. If you're not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you've got to get there.

James Dean

#9. When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.

Darmie Orem

#10. Now I saw this categorizing of my freezer food as a sign of the true chaos in my head.

Abraham Verghese

#11. A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

#12. I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

Alessandro Nivola