The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

I really do work in solitude.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

Everything we look upon is blest.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.