Quotes About Halsey

There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Admiral] Halsey was jubilant. Of the Princess-Saratoga strike, he wrote: 'I sincerely expected both air groups to be cut to pieces, and both carriers stricken if not lost. (I tried hard not to remember that my son Bill was aboard one of them.)

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

In a minute and a half Halsey's destroyers had done a million and a half dollars' worth of damage" in a mock attack that should have been a rude wake-up call to the battleship admirals.

See, I've started taking down All of my favorite little sounds. That waltz around you in 3 quarter notes With each word you pronounce

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.

Jesus Christ and General Jackson, this is the hottest potato they've ever handed me!" - Admiral "Bull" Halsey upon receiving instructions to take the Pacific Fleet and defend Guadalcanal at all costs.