“ The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the… David Grann
“ The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. David Grann
“ A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense o… David Grann
“ One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisa… David Grann
“ All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. —Don DeLillo, Libra David Grann
“ It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the savage as European rather than as some native in the jungle. David Grann
“ In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company motto, We Never Sleep was inscribed under a large, unblinking Masonic-like eye, which gave r… David Grann
“ During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies. David Grann
“ An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages? David Grann
“ Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon David Grann
“ During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's, he had been a child prodigy w… David Grann
