But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.


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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA
When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the struc...
ALFRED HERSHEY
O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON
The quiet sense of something lost
ALFRED TENNYSON
I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The ...
ALFRED HAYES
It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandabl...
ALFRED EINSTEIN
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED SMITH
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED SLOAN
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED SLOAN
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN
In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED SLOAN
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED SLOAN
A car for every purse and purpose.
ALFRED SLOAN
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY