Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
Studs Terkel quotes about
blacks whites
Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.
corpses frozen warm
If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.
friday monday dying
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.
dare
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
recognition celebrate
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
dare paraphrasing
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
nice vocabulary use
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.'