Siegfried Sassoon Quotes

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Siegfried Sassoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 8, 1886 - September 1, 1967

Topics

ThinkCleanSoldiersBeginDreamers

People think I'm totally crackers.

Andrea Riseborough

PeopleThinkCrackersTotally

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

Andres Segovia

YouTeethTouchMonsterPiano

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

Jeff Goldblum

LoveOceanMuchBoatsI Love

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Tony Goldwyn

DayBelieveEvery DaySeeingWonder

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.

Ronald Ross

TwoPeculiarCellsFoundSomeFed

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Miguel de Cervantes

LearningTimeManGraduationHead

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Michael Moschen

LifeLearningMyselfSchoolYear

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

Miranda Otto

FamilyTreeTurnOutGoingDeeply

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

Johnny Winter

LoveRoadPlayOhReallyI Love

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Chuck Klosterman

CulturePeopleFarmCountryWayUp

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.

Brad Feld

ChangeWordsSayingSayOverSee

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

William Wilberforce

ActionMeditationPrinciplesLead

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