George Pelecanos Quotes

My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a teacher who changed the course of my life.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTeacherCollegeMeReadingWay

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

Joanna Lumley

LoveFunWorldThinkCharityYou

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Robert Kiyosaki

PeoplePlanLongSecurityYoung

American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature. Yet we are comforted by the aristocratic notion that leadership might run in the bloodlines.

Michael Beschloss

NatureLeadershipBelieveThinking

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

John Surtees

CarTimeEndBackRaceLittle

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

Rose McIver

LovedEnoughYouLookWrongExpect

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

Rupert Murdoch

ChangeGoodI AmWorldRemembered

I would like America to remember those who have served and those that we've lost and their families.

Michael Mullen

AmericaRememberLostWouldLike

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

Lisa Marie Presley

WorkGoodMyselfFeel GoodThink

Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I'm 5' 9" now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4' 8".

Josh Keaton

LoveCharacterScienceGrowing UpUp

I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

ThinkWishLongSometimesSayHuman

At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 & Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.

Bow Wow

MusicDaughterTimeDayFunMe

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Bob Edwards

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