Adoff Quotes

#1. Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ... [is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Emile Borel

#2. They're crazy, Clary thought. Actually crazy.

Cassandra Clare

#3. HAMM: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something?
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

Samuel Beckett

#4. O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the shale,
and purple wings
of little winter-butterflies
say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

Hilda Doolittle

#5. I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Arnold Adoff

#6. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Noam Chomsky

#7. For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Rick Perlstein

#8. There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

Harriet Lerner

#9. I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

John Cusack

#10. A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

Arnold Adoff

#11. Firm.
Male.
Muscle.

Tracy March

#12. Life is extremely complicated.

Robert Ludlum

#13. A little bird told me," said the Lion.

Gregory Maguire

#14. I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

Sheryl Lee

#15. Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

Arnold Adoff

#16. I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."

Markus Zusak