Riverfeet Press Quotes

#1. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

Alister Hardy

#3. Perfect vision only gets in the way, Kyra thought. We all look better when the lights are out.

Victoria Avilan

#4. America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

Allen Ginsberg

#5. I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

Madeleine M. Kunin

#6. There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

William Bligh

#7. I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Maurice Sendak

#8. ...we do not own these woods. They own us.

Timothy Goodwin

#9. Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Orrin Woodward

#10. The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

Martin Naughton

#11. The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Colin Hanks

#12. Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Oscar Wilde

#13. It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday

Michael Meuers

#14. They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

Christopher Atkins

#15. A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.

Robert Frost

#16. Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.

Frederick Lenz