Quotes About Sheridan

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.

It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.

and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.

In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.

Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.

the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins

Well, if you're a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

The news of Sherman's success reached the North instantaneously, and set the country all aglow. This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. It was followed later by Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley; and these two campaigns probably had more effect in settling the election of the following November than all the speeches, all the bonfires, and all the parading with banners and bands of music in the North.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

There are films of mine that I've seen numerous times and other ones I've been in that I haven't seen at all. It depends on my experience making them.

Latour examines Pasteur and his influence in The Pasteurization of France (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

Sheridan hit the nerve. In one of his lectures, in 1762, he wrote: "Pronunciation . . . is a sort of proof that a person has kept good company, and on that account is sought after by all, who wish to be considered as fashionable people or members of the beau monde." He took no prisoners. "All other dialects are sure marks, either of a provincial, rustic, pedantic or mechanic education; and therefore have some degree of disgrace annexed to them.

her secret guilty pleasures were the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen.

Why do people only tolerate Sheridan, and go into ecstasies over burlesques ?" said Beltran. "Because we want to laugh and not to think," said Denzil. "Now, to laugh at Sheridan you must first think with him.