Erik Larson Quotes
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Erik Larson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's a hindrance to be lonely and isolated in one's work. Ideas stimulate ideas, and the love of writing is contagious." Martha
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.
Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term "fanatical" became a positive trait. Suddenly
People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.
Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed.
Oh, so many things swarmed in my thoughts," she wrote; "and yet each time I was with him I felt the charm of his presence.
Her blind endorsement of Hitler's regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,
The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
Stand with your back to the wind," he said, "and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.
Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower.
Would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere
He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
(Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.)
I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously.
Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.
At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir.
Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.
Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic - and looked the part.
At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.
I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford.
The world, he said, must face the sad fact that in an age when international cooperation should be the keyword, nations are farther apart than ever.
Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,
This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.
In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, Madam, do you think that would be a lady?
THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.
Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
Back in America, true to her nature if not to Boris, Martha met and promptly fell in love with a new man,
Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.
Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales.
(Britain had more than twice as many submarines as Germany but used them mainly for coastal defense, not to stop merchant ships.)
Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?
In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.
Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.
Among a list of measures effective for inducing vomiting, she included: Injections of tobacco into the anus through a pipe stem.
Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day.