#hanks

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#before #censored #elders #first #first time

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#blessings #country #efforts #ever #happen

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#because #comes #films #fortune #fun

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. ↗

— Emo Philips

#alone #i #night #other #sleeping

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#bed #country #god #late #limit

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#away #beginning #christmas #even #half