Daniel Keyes Flowers For Algernon Quotes

#1. And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.

Daniel Keyes

#2. Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

Daniel Keyes

#3. I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

Mavis Gallant

#4. Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Daniel Keyes

#5. And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: ' ... the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

Daniel Keyes

#6. I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

Benjamin Graham

#8. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#9. Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it...

Jim Morrison

#10. you to stay, you said no, so now you go. Capiche?" "You're such a nerd." He stood and crossed to the door. Before he left, he turned back to her. "April. This day has been hell. I'm happy you were around to make it better.

Mallory Crowe

#11. Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?

Daniel Keyes

#12. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes

#13. Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Daniel Keyes

#14. In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi

#15. I may not have all the time I thought I had...

Daniel Keyes

#16. My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.

Daniel Keyes

#17. All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth to where she was waiting. I loved her with more than my body.

Daniel Keyes

#18. Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Daniel Keyes

#19. I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting.

Daniel Keyes

#20. The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

Daniel Keyes

#21. Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

Daniel Keyes

#22. I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

Daniel Keyes

#23. Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Daniel Keyes

#24. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?

Daniel Keyes

#25. Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.

Li Keqiang