George Pelecanos Quotes

I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

Topics

AgeDayMeThoughtsReadingMeaning

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

Johann Lamont

ChangeLeaderWaitProblemBackSit

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

John Dyer

LoveHomeGreatLove IsPeopleSit

There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'

Ana Ivanovic

GirlTimeWomanPeopleTeamThink

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

Amanda Seales

FashionBelieveBlackFriendsWeek

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

Stuart Scott

DoctorSurpriseYouSaidKindJust

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

ImageCancerOwnEraEveryCasts

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

FutureSadDepressionConstruct

Music should be your escape.

Missy Elliott

MusicEscapeYourShould

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

Louis C. K.

HomeYouGoRealJust Do ItJust

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Jared Diamond

HistoryMeDifferencesHumanSeems

Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?

DJ Khaled

MeYouWillMarryNicki Minaj

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

Donna Leon

MoralProfoundSuspicionMostThan

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