Tikrit Quotes

#1. We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.

John Gimlette

#3. We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

Luke Harding

#5. Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

Farnaz Fassihi

#6. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Gilles Deleuze

#7. Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.

L. Frank Baum

#8. I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#9. Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Beatrice Webb

#13. Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

Rumi

#14. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

Terry Pratchett

#15. If we do not know ourselves in the waking world, what chance in dreams?

Cormac McCarthy

#16. You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

#17. When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.

Andrea Hurst

#18. You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

Daniel Suarez

#19. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

Maimonides