Acclimates Awards Quotes

#1. And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light.

Adrienne Rich

#2. I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world.

Marilyn Manson

#3. The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Scott Turow

#4. I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

Margot Asquith

#5. I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate

Rand Paul

#6. Men embrace you when you are talented,
men overlook you when you're not,
men scorn you when you are a genius,
the world spits out those it understands not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

Hugo Vihlen

#8. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

John Irving

#9. The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.

Boyd K. Packer

#10. Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.

Rob Sheffield

#11. The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.

Michael Pollan

#12. A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

John Rhys-Davies

#13. Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Richard Hooker