Nelson Algren Quotes

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

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• I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
  • First

• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Myself

• My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Me
  • During
  • Mother-In-Law

• When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Working

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Risk

• Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

  

  Bernice King
  • Children
  • Future

• I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Freedom

• When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • People
  • Bad
  • Help

• There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.

  

  Jason Day
  • World

• As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Great
  • Done

• I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • War
  • Night
  • Mad

• Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Free

• I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.

  

  Jessica Abel
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Daily

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Writing
  • Helping
  • Bachelors