Pearl Quotes

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.