Desolation Row Quotes

#1. Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

Patti Smith

#2. The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

Bob Dylan

#3. The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Bob Dylan

#4. Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Lily Rabe

#5. If you can do something when it's not fun, even when you're exhausted and bored and want to give up, then it just might be your calling.

Jeff Goins

#6. Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there's only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.

Georgia Clark

#7. You have to admire the human spirit - we'll continue building things just so someone else can watch them fall.

Andersen Prunty

#8. When I was starring as Roxie Hart in 'Chicago,' I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#9. Everyone is making love or else expecting rain

Bob Dylan

#10. The baby boom eventually prompted Hubbard to order that no one could get pregnant without his permission; according to several Sea Org members, any woman disobeying his command would be "off-loaded" to another Scientology organization or flown to New York for an abortion.

Lawrence Wright

#11. I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

W.S. Gilbert

#12. Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Evelyn Underhill

#13. You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work).

Steven B. Green

#14. Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

Christopher

#15. Everything in this book may be wrong.

Richard Bach

#16. The demon in me that knows there's a demon in you who can mop the floor with my raunchy butt tells me to say yes. I care. Deeply. (Ren)

Sherrilyn Kenyon