Erik Larson Quotes

He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

His quest to create a powerful first impression was good showmanship, but it also exposed the aesthetic despot residing within.

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves h...

I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dor...

I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple...

If I told you, you wouldn’t know what I was talking about.

In a conversation with a British embassy official that occurred at about this time, quoted in a memorandum later filed with the foreign office in London, Diels delivered a monologue on his own moral u...

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...

In the time of the fair the rate at which men and women killed one another rose sharply throughout the nation but especially in Chicago, where police found themselves without the manpower or expertise...

In this day before sonar, a submarine traveled utterly blind, trusting entirely in the accuracy of sea charts. One great fear of all U-boat men was that a half-sunk derelict or an uncharted rock might...

Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.

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,...

Neurath asked Dodd whether the United States did not have a Jewish problem of its own. You know, of course, Dodd said, that we have had difficulty now and then in the United States with Jews who had g...

No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapida...

Of the 791 passengers designated by Cunard as missing, only 173 bodies, or about 22 percent, were eventually recovered, leaving 618 souls unaccounted for. The percentage for the crew was even more dis...

Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably, he wrote. There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate.

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.

The next day Phipps wrote about Göring’s open house in his diary. The whole proceedings were so strange as at times to convey a feeling of unreality, he wrote, but the episode had provided him a valua...

The outcome was clear to Dodd well before the votes were counted. He wrote to Roosevelt, The election here is a farce. Nothing indicated this more clearly than the vote within the camp at Dachau: 2,15...

The smell of peace is abroad, the air is cold, the skies are brittle, and the leaves have finally fallen. I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of w...