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Albert Murray Quotes

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Albert Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1916 - August 18, 2013

Topics

Product Matter Precision Just Verbal

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

Joe Penny

Fast Always Up Hanging Older Kids

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Jessica Simpson

Think Innocence Young Missing Female

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

John Oates

Spring College Guitar Europe Gone

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke

You Grand Canyon Try Canyon Valleys

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

John Polanyi

Late Canada Nuclear Weapons 1950s

Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's inequities.

Stephanie Coontz

Women New Beginning Men Beginning

Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.

Robin Zander

Decisions Differences Forget Now Up

I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched 'I Love Lucy' and 'Benny Hill.' I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians' tapes.

Ron Funches

Love Mom Sister Comedy Movies Hill

When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

Miguel Cabrera

Best Want Way Right Something

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Dick Gregory

Loss Delight Us Riches Torment Much

'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Great Ocean Back India Dangerous

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

Winston Marshall

Good People Long Line Pretending