Black books Quote by Philip Gibbs

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

— Joan Baez

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get…

— Abraham Pais

“I had been in France less than 48 hours before that obliging agent of yours had to stop me being run over by a…

— Elizabeth Wein

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

— Heinz Guderian

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how…

— Meg Rosoff

I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned…

— Alvin C. York

The German police were actually after me when I was first in Stoke. They had put pictures of my face on the trees in…

— Marko Arnautovic

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report…

— Fritz Kreisler

Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in.…

— Jon Johansen

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

— Steven Wright

I was arrested a few times, for fights and having a knife.

— Leon Edwards

When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a…

— Arun Jaitley