Al Alvarez Quotes

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

Al Alvarez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 5, 1929

Topics

MeBookNiceSayBoyMean

I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

Jeremy Renner

GreatPeopleThinkSuccessfulSeen

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

Matthew Henson

ManWorldThinkFirstTopSit

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Robert Moog

BuildingKidBeenElectronicSince

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

Steve Scalise

AttitudeBackRealAnswersOutJust

It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LifeLiveHeartHistoryGreatWhy

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

JobBrainStartKeyLearnYou

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

Jason Fried

MindSomeoneOwnFunctionComputer

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.

Debi Mazar

YouSilverSpecialGetItalyEvery

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Chris Squire

FlyWorldYearHalfHereStudio

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Bob Feller

LifeSuccessOpportunitySportsDay

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Ashwin Sanghi

CreativeMeWritingWriteExpression

Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

William Vickrey

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