Smedley Butler Quotes

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940

Topics

WarBelieveNothingI BelieveJust

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.

Jimmy Griffin

GoodTogetherGrowFriendsMoreUp

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

BookThinkNothingWriteJustAbout

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

Michael Chabon

WorkMorningWifeNightWeekHouse

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

Steve Capus

PerspectiveFocusDayStrongEvening

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

Mohsin Hamid

GreatBelieveProblemsPlaceWant

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

Josh Hutcherson

MoviesFixNeedNextTwilightFan

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

Johnny Iuzzini

TimeMyselfBalanceCityMePlace

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Jolene Blalock

I AmHappyMeProcessPlaceAccept

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.

DeForest Soaries

PoliticalEnoughPlaceTrueHand

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

Annaleigh Ashford

LifeHomeNew YorkNewBeingWhole

Of my three daughters and one daughter-in-law, they all work. They all work, some of them full-time, some of them part-time. But they're still there as moms. And when they come home and take over that responsibility, they need a shared partner, and that partner is that partner for life. And I'm talking about, of course, the father.

Phil Gingrey

LifeWorkFatherHomeResponsibility

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Peter Diamandis

GoodFriendMeFlightPilotSolo

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Smedley Butler