Alistair Horne Quotes

Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.

Alistair Horne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 9, 1925 - May 25, 2017

Topics

KnowledgeMenPastArmyCrisisOver

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

John Allison

ThingFairlyUnpleasantDraw

My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.

Maya Hawke

FamilyTruthLieFightEnjoyTalk

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Robert Schumann

GoodMoneyI AmWindowYouForget

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Maurice Allais

ParentsSmallBornParisGrandfather

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

Ron Howard

WantMoviesWillOnlyMakeStudios

In 2010, the night before we launched 'Instagram v1', my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild.

Mike Krieger

DayPeopleNightWildFirstApp

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Lorna Luft

MotherBehaviorSheYearsOwnHer

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

CheatingLyingStealingCommonplace

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

Dick Armey

StupidMoreAccidentThanAnyone

Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PeopleFeelWishDoubtTryRight

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Willie Nelson

IgnoranceHurtYouBackMoreOut

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

Pierce Brosnan

DreamsManMoviesUpBeingGrant

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