Quotes About The French Foreign Legion

#1. As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Jonathan Winters

#2. My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#3. A brilliant white light beat pitilessly down, like the fierce desert sun at midday on the French Foreign Legion; the glittering floor dazzled the eye with the cruel desert glare. We walked slowly through the cereals.

Helen DeWitt

#4. I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

Tom Hardy

#5. You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

Buck Brannaman

#6. It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

Stendhal

#7. There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Brynn Kelly

#8. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#9. What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

Glenn Greenwald

#10. O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

Cyrus The Great

#11. For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Florence King

#12. Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

Dorothea Dix

#13. It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Bernadette Peters

#14. Read it to me."
"Seriously?" he said quietly. "You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn't enough?

Brynn Kelly

#15. Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Ryan Holmes

#16. My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

James Howe

#17. The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Paul Vixie

#18. I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Billy Corgan

#19. You promised me a kiss," she whispered.
"A rash comment in the heat of the moment." His face was so close she could feel electricity snapping between them.
"I think I'm still feeling that heat."
She tilted her hips. He groaned. It was enough. His mouth captured hers.

Brynn Kelly