Quotes About Marshall

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

The Court had a rule that it would indulge in wine-drinking only if it were raining. Marshall would look out the window on a sunny day and decide that wine-drinking was permissible since "our jurisdiction extends over so large a territory that the doctrine of chances makes it certain that it must be raining somewhere."11

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

During his tenure as solicitor general Marshall solidified his relationship with LBJ over bourbon and Dr Pepper.

During the Court's first oral argument, Scalia asked so many questions that Powell turned to Thurgood Marshall, who sat beside him on the bench, and whispered, "Do you think he knows the rest of us are here?

I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

In facing up to the knotty problem so early in the conflict, Marshall began to reveal why he would prove the one really indispensable American military leader of the Second World War.

I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.

The key lesson I want to extract from Marshall's story is that management is about more than responsiveness. Indeed, as detailed earlier in this chapter, a dedication to responsiveness will likely degrade your ability to make smart decisions and plan for future challenges

His blue eyes held a rare twinkle. "Oh goody. Another Marshall brother." He caught her hand. "Let's see. Ford beat me up. Wyatt nearly got me killed. Maybe Tate can get me arrested.

What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

For reasons of electoral calculation—to preserve his Democratic majorities in a congressional midterm election—Roosevelt wanted American troops fighting Germans before the end of the year. "We failed to see," Marshall would write, "that the leader in a democracy has to keep the people entertained. The people demand action.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it's kind of like the standard rock sound.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

What this country needs is a really good five cent cigar.

What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.