Cliffedge Quotes & Sayings

I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all ... and an exciting thing. — Nina Hagen

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. — Alice Walker

all the women in the city — J.C. Nelson

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. — John Armstrong

When I write, I want something to sound good itself. — Padgett Powell

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. — T. S. Eliot

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves. — John Steinbeck

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — W. H. Auden