Nipomo Quotes & Sayings

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character ... — David Bohm

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. — Judith Jamison

The reason so much bad poetry is written is that it is written as poetry instead of concept. And the reason the public doesn't understand poetry is that there is nothing to understand, and the reason most poets write it is that they think they understand. Nothing is to be understood or "regained." It is simply to be written. By someone. Sometime. And not too often. — Charles Bukowski

She threaded her fingers through my hair and I nearly whimpered at the feel of them, my eyes rolling to the back of my closed eyes. I clutched her waist tightly, inhaling her breaths as I practically swallowed her beautiful tongue. — Fisher Amelie

A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out. — William S. Burroughs

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. — Steven Pressfield

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. — Frank James

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death. — W.G. Sebald

There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this. — Georgette Heyer

Books are my weakness. — Dan Stevens

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. — Carlisle Floyd