Hanoi Hilton Quotes

#1. Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

William Shakespeare

#2. Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.

Vasily Grossman

#3. In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

Gloria Stuart

#4. I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

Kate Clinton

#5. I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Bruce Springsteen

#6. It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Erma Bombeck

#7. Everyone here was the cleverest little monkey in his or her particular tree. Except now we're all in one tree together. It can be a shock. Not enough coconuts to go round. You'll be dealing with your equals for the first time in your life, and your betters. You won't like it.

Lev Grossman

#8. I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

Dan Scanlon

#9. I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

Octavio Paz

#10. Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

Gore Vidal

#11. One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.

David Kirby

#12. Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two and it amazed and delighted, causing a stir in the pit of him, a kind of fibrillation.

Emma Richler

#13. A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

Dov Davidoff

#14. Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#15. Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Lucille Kallen