Nonformal Conversion Quotes

#1. As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

Rick Riordan

#2. If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

Werner Herzog

#3. A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

Rod McKuen

#4. I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

Pete Hamill

#5. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#6. It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

Aristophanes

#7. Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Lascelles Abercrombie