Film Louis Zamperini Quotes

#1. The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

JR

#3. The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it ... There's nothing that can stop you.

Jake Ellenberger

#4. Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

Misty May-Treanor

#5. That invisible hand of Adam Smith's seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

George Carlin

#6. The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.

Anne Makepeace

#8. The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

Louis Zamperini

#9. Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev

#10. You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.

Melissa De La Cruz

#11. Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow ...

Louisa May Alcott

#12. It is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

J. L. Mackie

#13. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

William Peter Blatty

#14. People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Donald Miller