George Pelecanos Quotes

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkSaidSometimesCrimeWrite

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

Joe Sakic

LifeTravelGameDoingYouWant

You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

HomeParentsSayingYouGoWant

Ashlee Simpson kicking her dressing room door after getting caught lip-synching - that was interesting to watch.

Meghan McCain

DoorInterestingDressingRoomWatch

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

Anita Borg

TechnologyPeopleSocietyYoungWant

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Amy Tan

WaterMyselfPainFaceLoseStone

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Sitting Bull

PowerAnimalMysteriousLandRight

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Simon Mainwaring

ChangeCollaborationImpossible

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Tom Cotton

TruthImpossibleTruth IsYouCrime

This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.

Mike Johanns

FoodSaidPresidentNationSupply

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

DriveGameRacingYouMoreHard

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

Jude Law

WorkFamilyHomeMyselfGraceDrive

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Jonny Lang

CareerBluesPlayKidWhoBegan

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