Top 32 Quotes About Flowers For Algernon
#1. I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!
Tina Fey
#2. Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.
Clint Catalyst
#3. Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.
Nicola Yoon
#4. I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
Daniel Keyes
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I may not have all the time I thought I had...
Daniel Keyes
#8. Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.
Jay Kay
#9. 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
#10. Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
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. Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?
Daniel Keyes
#14. Emery gives me a rock that she's colored on. She whispers in my ear. You can smash people's fingers with it when they're mean.
Jillian Dodd
#15. Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.
Donna Rice Hughes
#16. 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
#17. Why am I always looking at life through a window?
Daniel Keyes
#18. My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
Goswami Kriyananda
#19. 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
#20. You came, and the sun came after,
And the green grew golden above;
And the flag-flowers lightened with laughter,
And the meadowsweet shook with love
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#21. Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
Daniel Keyes
#22. I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting.
Daniel Keyes
#23. The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
Daniel Keyes
#24. I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
Jules Asner
#25. Those who governed these primitive monasteries soon realised the fact that without books their inmates would relapse into barbarism, and libraries were got together.
John Willis Clark
#26. I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#27. 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
#29. I recalled thinking ... His freakishly tidy side could be a problem.
To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth.
Betsy Cook Speer
#30. Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop
#31. 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
#32. 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
