Famous quotes containing the words war, november, october, seventh, fish and/or flying:
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“The recognition of Russia on November 16, 1933, started forces which were to have considerable influence in the attempt to collectivize the United States.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:14.
The seventh commandment.
“Everything seems beautiful because you don’t understand. Those flying fish, they’re not leaping for joy, they’re jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There’s no beauty here, only death and decay.”
—Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)
“English literature is a flying fish.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)