Centinela Prison Quotes & Sayings

At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot? — Erick Erickson

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. — Edward Abbey

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. In other words, that she's free. Not wholly free. Never wholly free. Maybe very partially. Maybe only in this one act, this sitting for a snatched moment being a woman writing, fishing the mind's lake. But in this, responsible; in this autonomous; in this free.
(- from The Fisherwoman's Daughter) — Ursula K. Le Guin

He smiled with the benevolence of somebody watching an unlovable toddler walk under a table and bang their head painfully. — Jonathan L. Howard

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. — James Lee Burke

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A. — Raphael Saadiq

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. — Ouida

When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you. — Keith Ellison

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty. — Archibald MacLeish

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key. — George Burns

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him. — Benjamin Graham

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. — Lord Acton

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper. — Paul Anka