Studs Terkel - From the Aging category:
I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Communication category:
More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Grace category:
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Hope category:
I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Immortality category:
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality, too. It goes from one generation to another. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Importance category:
When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Language category:
I want a language that speaks the truth. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Peace category:
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Profession category:
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Quotations category:
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Recognition category:
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Religion category:
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Standards category:
'Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Words category:
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Work category:
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. (Studs Terkel)
Studs Terkel - From the Writing category:
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now. (Studs Terkel)
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