Algonquin Quotes

#1. Jessica shook her head violently. "This isn't real! This is a floating skateboard. You did not just solve the world's energy crisis. All this is, is a really neat toy." Okay,

Mitty Walters

#2. Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#3. He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

Louis L'Amour

#4. In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.

Gloria Steinem

#5. I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Gwendoline Christie

#6. How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

Jose Padilha

#7. Do as you would be done by

Jennifer Dance

#8. I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

Claire Cameron

#9. I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

Anton Yelchin

#10. I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

Caroline Leavitt

#11. On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

Norman Mailer

#12. The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

Lorrie Moore

#13. He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

#14. My training centered on aerobic development, meaning I'd swim longer with less intensity during the majority of my practices. As I got older, I began more weight training, and my workouts went from long at a lower intensity to shorter and more intense.

Amanda Beard

#15. At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

John Leguizamo

#16. A loon called from across the lake in the hushed stillness of the rising moon.

R.J. Harlick

#17. Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

Harry Callahan

#18. My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#19. I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#20. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy