Karl Marlantes Quotes

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.

Karl Marlantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 24, 1944

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I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Michael Bay

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Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

Rodney Crowell

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I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Lord Byron

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Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Joyce Carol Oates

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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Denis Kearney

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I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

Brandon Lee

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How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

Bradley Wiggins

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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

Anthony Albanese

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I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.

Prince Royce

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