Alan Brien Professions : JournalistBorn : March 12, 1925Died : May 23, 2008 Browse All Authors Quotes From Alan Brien I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. Alan Brien drainagedonedoe When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism. Alan Brien agreementspecialcountry The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind. Alan Brien organized-mindfashioncountry New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. Alan Brien citiesnew-yorkfood You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you. Alan Brien sightwinninghome The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. Alan Brien joblawwaitingmen Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. Alan Brien reparteeilliterateviolence Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalistAll Authors
