Officer And A Gentleman Quotes

#1. He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;

Rudyard Kipling

#2. It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Debra Winger

#3. Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman," Kat cried. "Pick her up, Grace! Do it!

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#4. There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Dan Butler

#5. Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

Ambrose

#6. Embracing the Light
Collected bits of truth
Shimmering sparks
Shards of light
Merge
Healing
Restoring
Bursting Bright
Rising
in divine ecstatic flame.

Leonard Nimoy

#7. If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

#8. I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

Rachael Ray

#9. Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. ... I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone.

Andre Breton

#11. In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Abigail Van Buren

#12. I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

George MacDonald Fraser

#13. I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.

Michelle Williams

#14. At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

#15. Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

#16. Life lives on like a song

Louise Lake

#17. But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?

Mark Twain

#18. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

#19. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

Frederick Douglass

#20. A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember.

Karen Joy Fowler