Harvey Pekar Quotes

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Topics

PlaceSitGuyLikes

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins

CollegeGraduationIntellectualCover

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

Jeb Bush

LifeComfortable

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

Tori Amos

MusicPeopleWantWayListen

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

AttitudeRespectTimeMindStart

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

Miguel de Icaza

WorkBuildingToolsSeeSuccessful

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

Jason Fuchs

RideFlyWorldShipLearnYou

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

Jason Kander

LifeExperienceI AmMindMeWill

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

BusinessNobodyKnowSecretKnows

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

Arlen Specter

TeaPartyImportantMoreGangWho

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

ScienceWriteBostonGiveGlobe

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

MindThings HappenHappenAnalysis

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Plautus

CriticismComplimentSincereEven

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