It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

English has more flexibility. Its a very plastic very shapeable very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

Great liars are also great magicians.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and New Year but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Being a fashion designers its almost like being a doctor. You can touch a person because they cough and you can tell whether theyre ill.

I'm having a hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?'

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!