Algonquins Quotes

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Men, Glasses

  "News Item" l. 1 (1926)

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

  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

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". 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

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 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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• We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.

  Bob Chiarelli

  College, America, Visionaries

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• 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

  Growing Up, Hero, Chinese

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