John Hersey Quotes

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

John Hersey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1914 - March 24, 1993

Topics

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Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Jim Gaffigan

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I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

John Gutfreund

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We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

Jello Biafra

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The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.

Jenna Wortham

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For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

John Legend

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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Anna Quindlen

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My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Steve Burns

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Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Steve Guttenberg

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I can be horrifically single-minded.

Trisha Goddard

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Life comes full circle.

Tracey Gold

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I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

Rob Lowe

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My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

Roscoe Mitchell

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