Colonel Gordon Tall: John, I'm convinced that the Japanese position can be broken right now. All we have to do is keep going and we'll have this hill. We'll have this hill by sundown! You see the spirit in these men? Do you see the new spirit? Well, ...
Claire Standish: What's your name? John Bender: What's yours? Claire Standish: Claire. John Bender: Claire? Claire Standish: Claire. It's a family name. John Bender: Oh, it's a fat girl's name. Claire Standish: Oh, thank you. John Bender: You're welc...
If the dog leads the man, the man is blind. If the man leads the dog, the man is married.
A young man idle, an old man needy.
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a ...
He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.
Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall.
You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.
And now his cock wanted back in the game. Jesus, when your brain started talking to your cock, you were on some fucking really thin ice.
A blanket, no matter how thin, could be sliced thinner, and in this way one blanket could be used to keep a multitude of people warm. But not that warm.
You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who’s trying to get thin.
You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.
Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.
