Duelist Quotes

#1. Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Joseph Wheelan

#2. One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

Herman Melville

#3. We are fluid, like water. Nonsolid, like wind. We drip through the form we created for ourselves, find the cracks and leak out of it.

Anonymous

#4. [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

Harrison Ford

#5. I trip in two-inch heels. Any woman who can walk in stilettos deserves just a bit of respect. "We're

Apryl Baker

#6. Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Anthony Burgess

#7. For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Dominic West

#8. It's not that we don't care
it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

Bill Maher

#9. If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Charles Barkley