“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.” WorldYearsImportantReadingHellYears AgoSoldierHolesOddThirtyItalianWarfareCartoonOutlookObservingInvasionBuddyNormandyFoxholes Book:Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution Source: Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution
“When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.” YearsLittlesWould BeAbleBitsTalentPersonalityLittle BitPercentYears AgoLuckOddPercentages Author:Roger Moore
“I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.” KnowsYearsPlayFilmNextSawsGenerationsYears AgoTablesVersionsOddAlsGeeseOur GenerationGreat Film Author:Richard Schiff
“Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.” YearsTodayThreeSittingYears AgoOddBordersQuartersFlagsAnthem Author:Juan Enriquez
“The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.” YearsMadeDarkNumbersYears AgoBillsOddAdamNewtonWayne Author:Judd Nelson
“When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.” YearsRealFeltMonthsTerribleActivitySixYears AgoOddReliefSix MonthsPhysical Activity Author:James Taylor
“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.” YearsReasonWholeHateHouseFeetPoetOfficeYears AgoShootingOddReason WhyThirtyTortureExecutionDictatorProvokingTruckElusiveGloomyClumsyGleamCorridorsProsecutorSquadOrdealsGallantShufflingRuffian Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists” YearsMayAgeEarthReligionAnswersMillionsGroupsAtheismEvolutionHigherCreaturesYears AgoSpeciesAtheistFishesLegsIceOddPeculiarQuartersHookAnatomyCrooksIce AgeFins Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” IfsMenShouldYearsWellsMightRememberScienceViewsTheoryOughtYears AgoRateObservationOddThirtyColourPitsThirty YearsPebblesGravelGeologist Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species