#ld

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#angry #bee #blind #buzzing #every

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. ↗

— Pythagoras

#oldest #require #shortest #those #thought

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve

She would give them order. She would create constellations. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#create #give #order #she #them

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me. ↗

— Mike Quade

#any #approach #balls #business #concern

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over? ↗

— Mike Quade

#age-old #cliche #control #old thing #over

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#could #hold #how #i #job

A liar should have a good memory. ↗

— Quintilian

#good memory #liar #memory #should

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#could #cut #even #fired #got