Pearl Quotes

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.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

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

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

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

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

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

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

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

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

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

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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 attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

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

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

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.

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.