Valley Of Elah Quotes

#1. I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax.' And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

Paul Haggis

#2. History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, as he sized up his opponent long ago in the Valley of Elah. And in a different time and in a very different age,

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares

Agona Apell

#4. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

Jessi Kirby

#5. We're not making slides, we design it.

Dhony Firmansyah

#6. So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Robert Morris

#7. When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

Adrian McKinty

#8. Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. You've such a lovely temperature.

Ernest Hemingway,