Don Clifton Quotes

#1. Don't be afraid of poetry.

Clifton Fadiman

#2. I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.

Steven Holl

#3. Elrond," Bruce said. "The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring."
"Jesus," Annie said. "None of you got laid in high school, did you?

Andy Weir

#4. I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Lucille Clifton

#5. Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

Ken Goldberg

#6. Don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

Lucille Clifton

#7. Now I work down at the carwash
Where all it ever does is rain

Bruce Springsteen

#8. We must let go of those things that don't serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them.

Clifton Anderson

#9. There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you!

Clifton Anderson

#10. My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Clifton Fadiman

#11. Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

Clifton Fadiman

#12. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

Clifton Collins Jr.

#13. I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum Jr.

#14. Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

Lucille Clifton

#15. We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

Colin Beavan

#16. Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Lucille Clifton

#17. When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Bill Crawford