Atascadero California Quotes & Sayings

Sport is not my thing. — Rupert Friend

In California, there was Atascadero State Hospital, constructed in 1954 at the cost to taxpayers of over $10 million (almost $110 million in today's money). Atascadero was a maximum-security psychiatric prison on the central coast where mentally disordered male lawbreakers [including homosexuals] from all over California were incarcerated. Inmates were treated at Atascadero by a variety of methods, including electroconvulsive therapy; lobotomy; sterilization, and hormone injections. Anectine was used often for 'behavior modification.' It was a muscle relaxant, which gave the person to whom it was administered the sensation of choking or drowning, while he received the message from the doctor that if he didn't change his behavior he would die (10). — Lillian Faderman

To win, don't compete. To love, don't complain. To be kind, don't judge. — Debasish Mridha

I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there. — Jane Curtin

Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra)
He has your lungs. (Wulf)
Oh, please! (Cassandra)
Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you. — J. Cole

That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain. — Haruki Murakami

The books in the tote bag banged against her side as she pushed her bike, bringing her back to the present. The weight of the books grounded her, giving her careening emotions purchase with their heft and substance. — Jenn McKinlay

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not. — Thomas A Kempis

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race. — Johnny Gray

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. — Clifton Cameron

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. — William James

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead

The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into. — Tove Lo