Algonquins Quotes

• That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirador, Divertido, Hilarante

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Los hombres rara vez se insinúan a las chicas que llevan gafas.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Men, Glasses

  "Noticia" l. 1 (1926)

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• Me gusta tomar un martini/Dos como mucho/Después de tres estoy debajo de la mesa/Después de cuatro estoy debajo de mi anfitrión.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beber, Dos, Alcohol

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Puedes dirigir una horticultura, pero no puedes hacerla pensar.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beber, Dos, Alcohol

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  School, Ghetto, Cards

  Entrevista con Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. 31 de mayo de 2016.

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• 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

  Winter, Fog, Years

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

  Claire Cameron

  Believe, Writing, Choices

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• Queremos construir el sistema postsecundario más emprendedor de Norteamérica. Por eso nos complace que instituciones académicas como el Algonquin College, la Universidad de Ottawa y la Universidad de Carlton trabajen para que así sea a través del programa Campus-Linked Accelerator. Están contribuyendo a nutrir a nuestros visionarios empresariales y a encender su espíritu emprendedor, ayudándoles a tener éxito y a expandir nuestra economía.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Universidad, América, Visionarios

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• Cuando era pequeño tenía tres deseos. Quería ser un héroe tipo Lindbergh, aprender chino y convertirme en miembro de La Mesa Redonda de Algonquin.

  John F. Kennedy

  Crecer, Héroe, Chino

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