#ode

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#undefined #yet

It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their 'brave' stance on short-selling! ↗

— James Chanos

#back #beat #biggest #brave #collapse

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#felt #fiction #general #i #influence

And to this day, my Mom is my role model. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#model #mom #role #role model

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#models #out #runway #send #useless

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#beautiful #clothes #him #i #i love

We need role models who are going to break the mold. ↗

— Carly Simon

#going #models #mold #need #role

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#after #any #bank #i #life