Nelson Algren Quotes

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Nelson Algren

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• 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.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • United States
  • Europe

• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• 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.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Life
  • Anger
  • Room

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• I know all the books of the Bible.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Know
  • Bible
  • Books

• 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.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • People
  • Always
  • Praise

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Home
  • Relax
  • Weekend

• I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Born
  • Lucky

• I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Charlie

• 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.

  

  Kanye West
  • Bad
  • Forever

• 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

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Words
  • Die
  • Looks

• Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • Revolution
  • Novel

• What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Fake

• There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Nothing
  • Fake
  • Himself

• The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Easy

• Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Revolution
  • Successful

• It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Strange
  • Creatures
  • Fragile