Clellon Quotes

#1. John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

Jack Kerouac

#2. We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

Laura Kightlinger

#3. It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.

Ray Romano

#4. During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt a plague.

Anita Diamant

#5. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.

John Clellon Holmes

#6. Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

John Clellon Holmes

#7. The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Francis Quarles

#8. A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.

John Clellon Holmes

#9. But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

John Clellon Holmes

#10. Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

John Clellon Holmes

#11. Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

John Clellon Holmes

#12. He believed, as I did, that we are helpless to resist or influence what our hearts are bound to do. - Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler

#13. I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

Gae Aulenti

#14. Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robbie Williams

#15. The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

John Clellon Holmes

#16. Never again should you wonder what you have to be thankful for.

Rick Warren

#17. The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

John Clellon Holmes

#18. For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

John Clellon Holmes

#19. I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.

Robert Michael Pyle

#20. They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.

John Clellon Holmes