Quotes About Trench

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

You keep referring to this second shark as a female," Andre Dupont interrupted. "How do you know for sure?"' "Because I saw her. She passed over my sub when I was in the trench. She's much larger than this first shark… and she's pregnant." Conversations broke out across the conference table. Mac looked at Jonas. "How the hell do you know she's pregnant? You do a gynecological exam down there?

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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Can you imagine the misery of enduring the fear of incoming artillery while crouched in a trench or fighting hole in neck-high fifty-degree water?

WHEN ISHMAEL WOKE, the walls of his trench were seeping water and the dawn was colder than it should have been, the sky an unnatural and ubiquitous pale color that had less to do with the rising of the sun than the passing of the night.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Ghosts everywhere. Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them. This moment in this tent already had the quality of remembered experience. Or perhaps he was simply getting old. But then, after all, in trench time he was old. A generation lasted six months, less than that on the Somme, barely twelve weeks.

Into sleep's benthos and deeper. A slander that the deepest parts are lightless. There are moments of phosphor with animal movement. Somatic glimmers, and in the trench of sleep those lights were tiny dreams.

Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of 1918 on the side of a blood-spattered trench. Around her lay the mangled dead and the dying. Her body was untouched, her heart beat calmly, the blood coursed as ever through her veins. But looking deep into those emotionless eyes one wondered if they had suffered much before the soul had left them. Her face held an expression of resignation, as though she had ceased to hope that the end might come.

Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.

We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.

Im Schützengraben bleibt man nicht lange Atheist.

Haig and his colleague General Robertson's commitment to trench warfare—in the belief that conscripted soldiers were too untrained to do anything other than stand in a line and walk forward—had a devastating effect on the casualty lists.

There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.

The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.

She was entrenched. She had dug a trench all around herself called Alexander , and she couldn't leave.

So the water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.