(17 quotes found)
“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
“A relentless talent for tactlessness.”
“For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.”
“No writing comes alive unless the writer sees across his desk a reader, and searches constantly for the word or phrase which will carry the image he wants the reader to see, and arouse the emotion he wants him to feel. Without consciousness of a live reader, what a man writes will die on his page.”
“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.”
