Tokala Clifford Quotes & Sayings

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor

The concern shouldn't be whether you're "thinking outside the box," the focus should be actually "understanding the box that you're in" and especially its location! — Wes Adamson

I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me. — Walt Griffin

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, and always remember that it's never to late to make your dreams come true — Sandra Golden

We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant. — Lidia Yuknavitch

To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction. — Michael W. Clune

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing? — Peter Hedges

But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.
The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story. — Katharine Weber

And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour. — Theophile Gautier

Persistence is often more important than intelligence. Approaching material with a goal of learning it on your own gives you a unique path to mastery. — Barbara Oakley