Unmilitary Quotes

#1. So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but ... they had a golf course.

George Carlin

#2. Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.

Karen Maezen Miller

#3. I can't live off the ego.

Steven Tyler

#4. Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.

Tom Lehrer

#5. I was always my own teacher.

Eudora Welty

#6. A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley

#7. It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

Kelly Reichardt

#8. The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

Martin Luther

#9. There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

Beck

#10. Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

Mary Pope Osborne

#11. I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

Claire Foy

#12. If mysterious means a bunch of freaks being brought together by a freak car-accident, then, yes, God does vork in mysterious vays' declared the eldest Russian Doll.

Jonathan Dunne

#13. Revolution flashed as revelationary as revelation had been revolutionary.

R. Vision

#14. The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

Thomas G. Stemberg

#15. My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Marcel Duchamp