Mitch Albom Quotes

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

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• As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Small
  • Literature
  • Loved

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Dark
  • Blue
  • Season

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Old

• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Talent
  • Everyone
  • Fifty

• I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Game
  • Criticism

• No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Please
  • Anybody

• He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Game

• Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Fire

• I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • True

• I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Player

• Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Failure
  • inspirational

• A starving army is actually worse than none.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Worse

• The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

  

  Charles Templeton
  • Better
  • Worse
  • Hypocrite

• For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • Worse
  • Somebody
  • Watched