Famous quotes containing the words harry, harrison, radio and/or chicago:
“All my life Ive been running, from welfare officers, thugs, my father. See, there they are [the killers]. There on the bridge. Im a dead man. Nosseros told me that. He told me. He said, You got it all, but youre a dead man, Harry Fabian.”
—Jo Eisinger, and Jules Dassin. Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark)
“[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.”
—Benjamin Harrison (18331901)
“England has the most sordid literary scene Ive ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guys writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. Theyre all scratching each others backs.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)