Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Bowden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Mark Bowden.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Mark Bowden

Mark Robert Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was adapted as a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards.

No one gets left behind, you know that.
Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.
It's what you do right now that makes a difference. — © Mark Bowden
It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.
These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.
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