Kirkuk Quotes

#1. The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there ... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

Raymond T. Odierno

#2. I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

Luke Harding

#3. In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

Paloma Faith

#5. Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

Confucius

#6. If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Hilaire Belloc

#7. In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Donald Antrim

#9. No law's gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever god you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear, underneath, it's all the same love
About time that we raised up!

Macklemore

#10. Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men ... whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

#11. There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.

Chester Brown

#12. We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

Richard Rohr

#13. TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Michiel Huisman

#14. My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Dave Barry

#16. You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead.

J.D. Robb