Calero Lake Quotes & Sayings

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. — J.K. Rowling

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. — Alice Cooper

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss. — Jenny Nimmo

It pained Emily to her librarian's soul to see books mistreated like this. — Deborah Harkness

Without education ... what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes ... — Chukwudifu Oputa

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music. — Brigham Young

When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice. — Cynthia Lord

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune. — Jack Kerouac

Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it. — Brian D'Ambrosio