Quotes About Nelson

The convenient thing about biological warfare has always been easy deniability, and its untraceable origins.

Eu, como artista, se tivesse de escolher um epitáfio, optaria pelo seguinte: - 'Aqui jaz Nelson Rodrigues, assassinado pelos imbecis de ambos os sexos.

Tarado é toda pessoa normal pega em flagrante.

Nelson's body was pickled in brandy, which was replaced with wine at Gibraltar, and brought back to England, amid macabre speculation that the Admiral's crew had drunk the embalming brandy in transit.

Horatio Nelson set the standard after he was mortally wounded by a sniper at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson's body was pickled in brandy, which was replaced with wine at Gibraltar, and brought back to England, amid macabre speculation that the Admiral's crew had drunk the embalming brandy in transit.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

Audiences won't buy an Ozzie Nelson walking and talking around about Rickie's new bicycle.

A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

I'm obsessed with Maggie Nelson's work.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela.

There is an age-long argument about ships versus forts. Nelson said that a six-gun battery could fight a 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Mr. Balfour, in the Dardanelles inquiry, said in 1916: "If the ship has guns which can hit the fort at ranges where the fort cannot reply, the duel is not necessarily so unequal.

I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

What's the worst thing you can hear while you're blowing Willie Nelson? "I'm not really Willie Nelson.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

96. For a prince of blue is a prince of blue because keeps 'a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere' (Lowell, 1870) This is how a prince of blue becomes a pain devil.

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

It seems to me crucial — even ethically crucial — to treat with caution any rhetoric that purports to have all ethical goodness on its side.

the history of psychology does not exactly fill me with faith in its teleological progress. p. 204

Ultramarine is not, of course, holy in and of itself. (What is?) It had to be made holy, by the wicked logic that renders the expensive sacred.