Quartermasters Note Quotes

#1. There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

#2. Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

Oren Lyons

#3. Of course I am," I said. "Give her time to get well. Everything will be fine." No lightning struck me when I said it, so I suppose it was possible that I was right.

Jeff Lindsay

#4. My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

Jerry Saltz

#5. My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

Russell Peters

#6. One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

John Fund

#7. The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.

Charles P. Pierce

#8. Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Georges Braque

#9. The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.

Nathaniel Fick

#10. You don't have to be big to be great.

Dominika Cibulkova

#11. The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

Jack Canfield

#12. This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion.
"Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase.
"Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.

Roland Smith

#13. To love is to transform; to be a poet.

Norman O. Brown

#14. Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

John Sununu

#15. Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.

Lev Grossman