Nelson Algren Quotes

A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.

Nelson Algren

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Movie
  • First

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Results

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Think

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Geographic

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Ideas

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Red

• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Daughter

• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  

  Lisa See
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • She

• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Know
  • Solitude

• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Drunk

• A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Thinking