Riprap Quotes

#1. Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Gary Snyder

#2. The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.

Lauren Leto

#3. L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.

Tahmoh Penikett

#4. I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adam Savage

#5. My mother was an avid reader ... She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes ...

Adriana Trigiani

#6. A nervous, undernourished girl who continually looked down the front of her gown as though there was some sort of construction project going on under her clothes.

Philip Roth

#7. Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

Stephen Charnock

#8. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus