Musculi Dorsi Quotes

#1. In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

Scott Raab

#2. Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Epictetus

#4. The Stranger: Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.

Fred Barnett

#5. The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

#6. God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

Rashi

#7. The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Yayoi Kusama

#8. The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

Niecy Nash

#9. A wielder of words is a wielder of power.

Dyrk Ashton

#10. One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

Jesse Andrews

#11. Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ...

Rebecca Serle

#12. Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

#13. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

B.C. Forbes

#14. My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

Stuart Symington