Slammer Los Angeles Quotes & Sayings

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. — J.D. Salinger

Sometimes words were useless. It was the deed that would be remembered, anyway, long after the words had faded into the wind. — L. Joseph Shosty

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved. — Stephen King

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies. pg. xvi — Maureen Corrigan

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen

We live to produce information, or improve on it. Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri - either children or books, both information that caries through the centuries ... I am here to die a heroic death for the sake of the collective, to produce offspring (and prepare them for life and provide for them), or eventually, books, - my information, that is, my genes, the anti-fragile in me, should be the ones seeking immortality, not me. Then say goodbye, have a nice funeral in St. Sergius (Mar Sarkis) in Amioun, and, as the French say, place aux autres - make room for others (p. 370-371). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games. — Michael Wilbon

When you do things in a soft way, you make the other people believe they've thought up something to do for you, when actually you're directing them. Later, Ruth — Lisa See

As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities - brain tumor, Alzheimer's, stroke - believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing. — Amy Tan

Art is an investigation. — Twyla Tharp

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. — Woodrow Wilson

The Choice Spare him till he dies. Torment him till he lives. — John Fowles

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.' — Mitch Hedberg