Maffett Library Quotes & Sayings

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room. — Aldous Huxley

Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try anymore. — Jack Jones

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets. — Al Leiter

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything! — P. J. O'Rourke

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel ... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel ... — Bob Dylan

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. — Lee De Forest

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin. — Adrienne Rich