Afghanistan Quote by H. L. Mencken

“Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any…

— Arthur Machen

“This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow , The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.”

— Tennessee Williams

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth,…

— George Eliot

“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in our own…

— Roberto Bolaño

Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in…

— Alistair Beaton

“A nightmare. What should have been a quiet little operation was now looping on CNN. Drew Peters had immediately played the national-security card, shutting…

— Marcus Sakey

“It was as if the curtains came down on all this, if not entirely obliterated it, when the monsoon rose up in the thunderous…

— Anita Desai

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)

— Michael C. Burgess

“But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings.…

— Arthur Machen

“I heard that Mayor Rivers’ speeches are absolutely riveting,” Ethan joked, winking. “Oh, definitely.” My words were drenched in sarcasm. “I believe he called…

— Ada Adams

“Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was…

— Antonia Fraser

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson