Ernie Pyle Quotes

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

Ernie Pyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945

Topics

LifeWarMeWritingBattleFighting

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

TimeConstitutionCompromiseSecurity

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

Andrew Motion

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My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

Anna Kendrick

FamilyMeUnderstandingPhoneBecome

Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

Ana Navarro

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All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Rumi

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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

Donald Ray Pollock

GreatWritingWorldThoughtLoved

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Bradley Wiggins

PeopleCelebrityWorking-ClassTend

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

Arne Jacobsen

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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Alfred Stieglitz

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I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

LifeI AmMy LifeWorthPersonNow

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Muddy Waters

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