California Poets Quotes

#1. The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

Al Kooper

#2. It
was my first doll that water went
into and water came out of much
earlier it was the diaper I wore
and the dirt thereof and my
mother hating me for it

Anne Sexton

#3. When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

Judd Apatow

#4. Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

#5. When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Joseph Joubert

#6. Never criticize. Remember that no one deserves it more than the one who is criticizing.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Cassandra Clare

#8. The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

Claude C. Hopkins

#9. How can we stop learning, if we still have breath?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#11. Music can change your mood instantly. It can make memories feel present and any dream seem tangible.

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Veronica Roth

#13. Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

Orson Scott Card

#14. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Cameron Dokey

#15. One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Duncan McNaughton

#16. I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Michael Connelly