Quotes About The Jungle By Upton Sinclair

#1. I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

David Schwimmer

#2. I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#3. And the wild beast rose up within him and screamed, as it had screamed in the Jungle from the dawn of time.

Upton Sinclair

#4. Your back may be pushed against the wall, but your brain is not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what did she dream of? Did she walk up stairs to where she lived and what did it smell like and what was she wearing and who were her neighbors?

Elizabeth Berg

#6. And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Jerry Falwell

#7. Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.

Dick Morris

#8. I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

#9. You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Bud Selig

#10. I brought seaweed snacks from home,' chimed in another kid. "Seaweed got iron, right?"
'I don't think the teachers meant that kind of iron,' said Hui Ann.

Zen Cho

#11. What you call your personality, you know?
it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Upton Sinclair

#13. But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.

Helen Keller

#14. Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.

Upton Sinclair

#15. Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Gene Fowler

#16. Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.

Ian McEwan

#17. People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

Catharine MacKinnon

#18. This desire to govern a woman
it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together ... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes
really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

E. M. Forster

#19. A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

Radhanath Swami

#20. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

Upton Sinclair

#21. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Rysa Walker