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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da71f04 | Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. | Erik Larson | ||
| 4f40761 | I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word." Burnham said. Larson wrote, "The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it." | erik-larson the-devil-in-the-white-city | Erik Larson | |
| 2181d18 | It was a difficult ride for him. He had passed this way before, to bury John Root. The fair had begun with death, and now it had ended with death. | john-root the-worlds-fair world-fair | Erik Larson | |
| 1c481b2 | following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What | Erik Larson | ||
| c865da4 | After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: "For our part, we want the traffic--the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still." | Erik Larson | ||
| ed53c5f | For those passengers who did feel unsettled by the German warning, Cunard offered comforting words. Wrote passenger Ambrose B. Cross, "From the very first the ship's people asseverated that we ran no danger, that we should run right away from any submarine, or ram her, and so on, so that the idea came to be regarded as a mild joke for lunch and dinner tables." | Erik Larson | ||
| f87bce0 | With the onset of winter Burnham ordered all hydrants packed in horse manure to prevent freezing. On the coldest days the manure steamed, as if the hydrants themselves were on fire. | Erik Larson | ||
| 9af42b5 | He came from plebeian roots and had failed to distinguish himself in any way, not in war, not in work, not in art, though in this last domain he believed himself to have great talent. He was said to be indolent. He rose late, worked little, and surrounded himself with the lesser lights of the party with whom he felt most comfortable, an entourage of middlebrow souls that Putzi Hanfstaengl derisively nicknamed the "Chauffeureska," consisting.. | Erik Larson | ||
| c4accb9 | she suppressed a revolt led by the board's executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed women. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8d12fee | A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy. | Erik Larson | ||
| c1a5ca6 | As the crowd thundered, a man eased up beside a thin, pale woman with a bent neck. In the next instant Jane Addams realized her purse was gone. The great fair had begun. | Erik Larson | ||
| 7aaba01 | Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation. | Erik Larson | ||
| b2befca | But one thing was quite clear..." he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations." | life poor wealth | Erik Larson | |
| 3005e94 | But Hitler's government was neither civil nor coherent, and the nation lurched from one inexplicable moment to another. | Erik Larson | ||
| c8db413 | Asked later how this feat had been achieved, Morton answered, "If you had to jump six or seven feet, or certainly drown, it is surprising what 'a hell of a long way' even older people can jump." | Erik Larson | ||
| 3d27d2a | my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What | Erik Larson | ||
| bfb99a5 | look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion--that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean. | Erik Larson | ||
| ea67e2b | fair. Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything. No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. | Erik Larson | ||
| 1564026 | In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. --DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I | Erik Larson | ||
| b58b6e2 | it is less important where one lives than how one lives. | Erik Larson | ||
| c1392f6 | gin daisy, which | Erik Larson | ||
| 650cd73 | Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower. | Erik Larson | ||
| 73d7e64 | He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing. | Erik Larson | ||
| 6d34bce | The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly; | Erik Larson | ||
| 2527727 | A single German submarine, Unterseeboot-9--U-9, for short--commanded by Kptlt. Otto Weddigen, had sunk all three ships, killing 1,459 British sailors, many of them young men in their teens. | Erik Larson | ||
| 0415acb | Americans coming to Germany will find themselves surrounded by influences of the Government and | Erik Larson | ||
| 2f448c3 | most sailors still held the belief that there was no point in knowing how to swim, since it would only prolong your suffering. Turner | Erik Larson | ||
| 6d60e12 | Germany issued a proclamation designating the waters around the British Isles an "area of war" in which all enemy ships would be subject to attack without warning." | Erik Larson | ||
| 726787b | She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously." | Erik Larson | ||
| d6598e7 | THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells. | Erik Larson | ||
| 3ec3170 | During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city's drinking water. | Erik Larson | ||
| 5f1bea0 | to remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man. | Erik Larson | ||
| 597c54e | In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years. | Erik Larson | ||
| bc35749 | of mounting threat. | Erik Larson | ||
| 9e82b71 | They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat. | Erik Larson | ||
| 7bf13b4 | Hitler's cabinet enacted a new law, to take effect January 1, 1934, called the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, which authorized the sterilization of individuals suffering various physical and mental handicaps. | Erik Larson | ||
| b71da74 | Tolerance means weakness," Eicke wrote in the introduction to his rules. "In the light of this conception, punishment will be mercilessly handed out whenever the interests of the fatherland warrant it." | Erik Larson | ||
| e4ff29a | He sensed a rising "hysteria" among midlevel leaders of the Nazi Party, expressed as a belief "that the only safety lies in getting everybody in jail." | Erik Larson | ||
| 8b65560 | No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city's population. | Erik Larson | ||
| 87f2925 | One woman, Margaret Gwyer, a young newlywed from Saskatoon, Canada, was sucked into one of the ship's 24-foot-wide funnels. Moments later an eruption of steam from below shot her back out, alive but covered in black soot. | Erik Larson | ||
| 72d55ff | My darling atheist," she recalled telling him, "why do you help me decorate a Christmas tree to celebrate the birth of Christ?" He laughed. "This isn't for Christians or for Christ, liebes Kind," he said, "only for pagans like you and me. Anyway, it is very beautiful." | Erik Larson | ||
| b743340 | Unmistakable and invulnerable, a floating village in steel, the Lusitania glided by in the night as a giant black shadow cast upon the sea. | Erik Larson | ||
| bbe429c | In part, he knew, this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished violators with prison, and here Dodd found deepest irony. "At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting." | Erik Larson | ||
| 022695c | It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time--1903--when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry. | Erik Larson |