George Packer Quotes

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

George Packer

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• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Past
  • Season
  • Colleagues

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • Together
  • History

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Think
  • Past
  • Old

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Popular
  • Vilifies

• There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Simple

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Television
  • Radio
  • Leave

• There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Women
  • Wonder
  • Feelings

• The windy lights of Autumn flare;I watch the moonlit sails go by;I marvel how men toil and fare,The weary business that they play!Their voyaging is vanity,And fairy gold is all their gain,And all the winds of winter cry,'My Love returns no more again.'

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Men
  • Business
  • Gold

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Test

• Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

  

  George Packer
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Popular