Nelson Algren Quotes

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nelson Algren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981

Topics

WomanManSleepMomCardsPlay

I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

Jesse Metcalfe

GirlSchoolHigh SchoolOutHigh

To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

DieShoreLandingSomeDistant

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Melvyn Bragg

TimeMemoryMeStartUniverseSand

At some point, if you don't take care of the roads today, it's like any other maintenance issue: you're going to end up paying a lot more down the road.

Matt Mead

TodayRoadsRoadCareEndTake Care

I'm the American Winston Churchill.

Michael Moriarty

AmericanWinston ChurchillChurchill

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington

DreamsYouRealizeHardGoingRead

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

William S. Burroughs

PeopleSome PeopleOldAlwaysLike

I am someone that appreciates talent.

Timothy F. Cahill

TalentI AmSomeoneAmAppreciates

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Leslie Hope

HairPlaceKindPrettyHousewife

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

Lenny Abrahamson

PeopleDetailFreeRealityYouLook

As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.

Kenneth R. Miller

YouEvolutionKnowWhyAncestors

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

Janet Evanovich

TimeFaceWriteGoingEveryPlum

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