Quotes About The Vietnam War Memorial

#1. The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

Adrienne Rich

#2. I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin

#3. I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

#4. In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

David Mamet

#5. Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Ned Rorem

#6. What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Meryl Streep

#7. When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

Matisyahu

#8. I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

Kathleen Hanna

#9. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Maya Lin

#10. What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

Dennis Cardoza

#12. The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

Elia Kazan

#13. Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

James Elkins

#15. If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Dan Savage

#16. Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

Luqman

#17. I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jeffrey Eugenides