Pearl Quotes

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

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.

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

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.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

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

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.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

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.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

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

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

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.

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

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

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.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

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.