Musacchio And Pyle Quotes

Despite our scientific and philosophical knowledge, it is still difficult to accept that we are alone in the Universe and that our self will vanish with our death. ~ Jose M. Musacchio

Up rose Robin Hood ~ Howard Pyle

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it. ~ Howard Pyle

A day like this ... is almost too perfect to be legal. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

Our artillery ... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had. ~ Ernie Pyle

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last. ~ Robert Pyle

Talk about life - but in your own way. ~ Howard Pyle

Active listening involves both demonstration and perception. ~ James Pyle

There are no atheists in the foxhole. ~ Ernie Pyle

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture. ~ Howard Pyle

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. ~ Howard Pyle

Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart. ~ Howard Pyle

The teacher knows best what these helpful connections are and must help the pupil to make them. ~ William Henry Pyle

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured. ~ Howard Pyle

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. ~ Ernie Pyle

Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who'd read more if only their lips didn't get so tired. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. ~ Howard Pyle

We were born to crucify the truth; it is our mission in life, and we must not be blamed when we fulfill our destiny. ~ Howard Pyle

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them. ~ Howard Pyle

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. ~ Ernie Pyle

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff. ~ Howard Pyle

That kind of walk is nice when it happens, but I'll take four minutes now and then over being butt-stapled to a chair all day long. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. ~ Ernie Pyle

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat. ~ Howard Pyle

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture. ~ Howard Pyle

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud. ~ Howard Pyle

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing. ~ Howard Pyle

Himalayans (blackberries) seize the land, gobbling acres, blanketing banks, consuming abandoned farmhouses and their Studebakers and anything left alone in the rain for five minutes or longer. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way. ~ Howard Pyle

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV. ~ Missi Pyle

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles. ~ Donna Pyle

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy. ~ Howard Pyle

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job. ~ Ernie Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. ~ Howard Pyle

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. ~ Ernie Pyle

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself. ~ Ernie Pyle

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. ~ Howard Pyle

Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ~ Ernie Pyle

Love that transforms is love that is vulnerable. ~ Nate Pyle

Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly. ~ Howard Pyle

Jesus, as the one perfect person who fully embodied what it meant to be human and is the new Adam, is the definition of what it means to be a man. Everything else is false. ~ Nate Pyle

I cannot waste my time teaching mediocrity," to J. Henry Harper, when he quit teaching an open-to-all illustrating class at Drexel Institute... from Where Your Heart Is...The Story of Harvey Dunn, Artist. page 32. ~ Howard Pyle

No matter where you go in East Texas, 'Deep' East Texas is always about twenty miles further in than wherever you are. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul. ~ Howard Pyle

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight. ~ Howard Pyle

My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious. ~ Missi Pyle

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive. ~ Ernie Pyle

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.' ~ Missi Pyle

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really. ~ Missi Pyle

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false. ~ Missi Pyle

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. ~ Ernie Pyle

The paradox of questioning is that simple questions can lead to detailed, on-target answers, but complicated questions get you single-word answers from a subject who doesn't want to talk, and unrestrained answers from a person who does. ~ James Pyle

Surprisin' a li'l ol' five foot tumble would kill a healthy feller like Charley," opined Barstow.
"Well, Jim Ed, we have to remember that that hemp neckerchief he was a-wearin' at the time, had ten, twelve inches, maybe less, slack than that to it. ~ D.V. Pyle

Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I. ~ Howard Pyle

You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking. ~ Robert Pyle

This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into plowshares end up doing the plowing for those who kept their swords. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals. ~ Missi Pyle

In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people.
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But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice. ~ Ernie Pyle

I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier. ~ Missi Pyle

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ~ Ernie Pyle

In 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which vanishingly few senators and representatives are wholly free when they gaze enraptured into their mirrors of a morning), Senator [William Alden] Smith wasn't noted for much of anything. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Let me tell you, an I had the shaping of things in this world, ye should all three have been clothed in the finest silks, and ride upon milk-white horses, with pages at your side, and feed upon nothing but whipped cream and strawberries; for such a life would surely befit your looks. At ~ Howard Pyle

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. ~ Howard Pyle

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without. ~ Ernie Pyle

When that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true. ~ Missi Pyle

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'? ~ Howard Pyle

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened. ~ Missi Pyle

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out. ~ Ernie Pyle

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ~ Ernie Pyle

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice. ~ Missi Pyle

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not. ~ Ernie Pyle

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air. ~ Howard Pyle

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again. ~ Missi Pyle

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We're not specially courageous, we're just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.) ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore. ~ Howard Pyle

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing. ~ Missi Pyle

It is a woman's responsibility to dress herself in the morning. It is your responsibility to look at her like a human being regardless of what she is wearing. You will feel the temptation to blame her for your wandering eyes because of what she is wearing -- or not wearing. But don't. ~ Nate Pyle

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun. ~ Missi Pyle

I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old. ~ Missi Pyle

And now, dear friend, you who have journeyed with me in all these merry doings, I will not bid you follow me further, but will drop your hand here with a good den, if you wish it, for that which cometh herafter, speaks of the breaking up of things, and shows how joys and pleasures that are dead and gone can never be set upon their feet to walk again. ~ Howard Pyle

But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ~ Ernie Pyle

The reason all the 'intellectuals' – Sartre and Marx, Hemingway and Hellman – (. . .) are Leftists is that a defining characteristic of the 'intellectual' is the belief, stemming from inane notions of the perfectibility of man, that he can sit in a darkened room and purely by thinking, create a new heaven and a new earth, utopia, the eschaton immanentized. Rubbish, of course, but there you have it. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Dead men by mass production––in one country after another––month after month and year after year. Dead men in winter and dead men in summer. Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you come almost to hate them. These are the things that you at home need not even try to understand. ~ Ernie Pyle

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later. ~ Ernie Pyle

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ~ Ernie Pyle

We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls attention to itself, whether scored by herons, cranes, or wires; illumined by sunsets, Perseids, or ballparks; broken up by the twigwork of oaks or maples, painted in rainbows, or just primed in the pale gray of my '52 Ford. If we are truthful, the sky is never neutral. ~ Robert Michael Pyle

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture. ~ Missi Pyle

I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings ... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade ... with stiff fingers and chilled bones ... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture. ~ Howard Pyle

Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ~ Ernie Pyle

It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better ... ~ Howard Pyle

I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest common denominator, be it in syncretizing saints with old, half-forgotten pagan godlings, or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin' to solid sense and learning, regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life, especially Protestant American religious life, that things bottom out completely. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle