Pillbox Quotes

#1. It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

John Leonard

#2. Throw a hand grenade into a German pillbox and they come out with hands reaching for the sky and shouting "Kamerad!" Throw a hand grenade into a Japanese pillbox and they throw it right back at you. It

Holland M. Smith

#3. Popular music is like a big party, and it's a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.

Tom Waits

#4. (At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on closer inspection to be a mighty stressed-concrete pillbox.) Military

Ian Fleming

#5. Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!

Bill Maher

#6. When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.

Blake Lively

#7. He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement wall of a machine-gun pillbox.

Jess Walter

#8. Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Werner Herzog

#9. It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

Robert Novak

#10. The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Bliss Carman

#11. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Baruch Spinoza

#14. Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog in the dreary machinery of a third-rate mortgage mill, overlooked, unloved, a sidelined player in the big game,

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

Jenny Holzer