Jack Kerouac Denver Quotes

#1. The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

John Martel

#2. I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry.

Justin Allgaier

#3. And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

Jack Kerouac

#4. In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Sherwood Anderson

#5. I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.

Jack Kerouac

#6. Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

Ai-jen Poo

#7. I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

Jack Kerouac

#8. I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races

Jack Kerouac

#9. About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.

Christopher Moore

#10. It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.

Jack Kerouac

#11. We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Jack Welch

#12. I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

Damon Albarn

#13. But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around - it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.

Morgan Matson

#14. Down in Denver, all I did was die.

Jack Kerouac