Nelson Algren Quotes
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
-
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
-
I listen to music constantly while writing.
-
We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
-
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
-
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
-
I know all the books of the Bible.
-
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
-
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
-
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
-
With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
-
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
-
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
-
I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
-
If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
-
Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
-
Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.
-
I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?
-
If you want to appoint someone to help stop the spread of a lethal contagion, you would never think of Klain. But if you want to contain the Ebola episode so it stays as quiet as possible until after the election, he is the right guy for the job. Good luck to us all.
-
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
