Knebel Quotes

#1. Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gore Vidal

#2. Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Haruki Murakami

#3. No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

Fletcher Knebel

#4. Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

John Boehner

#5. Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Fletcher Knebel

#6. Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.

Ron Rozelle

#7. Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

Fletcher Knebel

#8. A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Fletcher Knebel

#9. Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Swae Lee

#10. Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fletcher Knebel

#11. Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

#12. A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

Raymond Chandler

#13. If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

Chelsea Handler

#14. True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#15. Sometimes ... " He paused and squeezed his eyes shut. " Sometimes our hearts ... crack a little." -Jack

Brodi Ashton

#16. We don't have to be afraid of stepping out. We don't have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.

Jennifer L. Lane

#17. Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#18. Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Fletcher Knebel

#19. Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

#20. The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Fletcher Knebel

#21. We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Majel Barrett

#22. In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity ... I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Mark McCormack

#23. But if you fell in love with him as he is now, why do you want to fix him?

Tonya Burrows

#24. The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

#25. Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

Michael Moorcock

#26. Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Fletcher Knebel

#27. Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become.

Samuel R. Delany

#28. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

Karl Ludwig Von Knebel