Quotes About Sal Paradise

#1. You're giving me two choices, and I'm choosing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I would choose Jesus over Donald Trump, probably. But you're just giving me two choices.

Anthony Scaramucci

#2. People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Lionel Shriver

#3. Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.

Jack Kerouac

#4. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

Jack Kerouac

#5. There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

Craig Finn

#6. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

#7. When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.

John Milton

#8. I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.

William Powell

#9. It was when he was so casually clever, however, that I wanted to pickle his gherkin.

Nicole Peeler

#10. My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

Anna Sewell

#11. To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#12. I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#13. The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

#15. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

#16. No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.

Bee Wilson

#17. The vicar gave him permission and he kissed her - not hard, for lust, nor long, for love, but a light brush of his lips for the brief space of time that she would stay in his life.

Courtney Milan