48 Quotes by Ernie Pyle

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.