Learson Quotes

#1. Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community - not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

Judith Krug

#2. With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.

Rivers Cuomo

#3. He wanted to escape from himself.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

Rollo May

#5. Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

Tom Robbins

#6. Irony is that special privilege of wealthy nations;

Euny Hong

#7. Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.

Lola Ridge

#8. I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

Duncan Armstrong

#9. Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.

J.D. Cunegan

#10. The bigness of the West makes men quiet; they seldom talk unless they have something to say.

William S. Hart

#11. No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

Stephen Colbert

#12. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley