Quotes About Sherman

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.

I am surrounded by people who trust me to be a respectful stranger

That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.

Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal.

If you can catch crazy, I'm a walking epidemic.

I don't think there is a saint of orthodontics.

I want all kinds of strangers to love me. The Indian horses screamed.

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

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.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

Yeah, I've gotten to know the many sides of Richard Sherman as the years have passed. There's a lot going on with that guy.

We can punish South Carolina as she deserves, and as thousands of people in Georgia hoped we would do," Sherman wrote. "I do sincerely believe that the whole United States, North and South, would rejoice to have this Army turned loose in South Carolina, to devastate that State in the manner we have done in Georgia.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

General William T. Sherman

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

He threatened you, Mary? And your mother?" "It was just the liquor talking, I'm sure, Fred. Even that Sherman lot wouldn't harm a woman." "For his sake, I'd better not see any of them try. Or even speak of it.

Steve Grund was called into the courtroom, and he was tripping out.

the question of who devised the plan of march from Atlanta to Savannah is easily answered: it was clearly Sherman, and to him also belongs the credit of its brilliant execution.

During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon became known to the whole country, disclosing the plans of the enemy, thus enabling General Sherman to fully meet them. He exhibited the weakness of supposing that an army that had been beaten and fearfully decimated in a vain attempt at the defensive, could successfully undertake the offensive against the army that had so often defeated it.

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.

WHEN THE NEWS REACHED ME of McPherson's victory at Raymond about sundown my position was with Sherman. I decided at once to turn the whole column towards Jackson and capture that place without delay.