Rockland Quotes

#1. I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss

Allen Ginsberg

#2. I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter.

Allen Ginsberg

#3. I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.

Eliot Engel

#4. I swear you must have a rainbow shooting out of your ass, you're so bright and shiny and wonderful.

Kate Rockland

#5. A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Willa Cather

#6. I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. There I sat.

Virginia Woolf

#7. In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.

Kate Rockland

#8. Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

Kate Rockland

#9. Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Assata Shakur

#10. In my family strange is relative.

Kate Rockland

#11. I thought about the cast of The Wizard of Oz on the yellow brick road and wondered which character I was. Perhaps the Tin Man, in search of a red, pulsating heart. Or at least someone to give it to.

Kate Rockland

#12. Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

Glenn Greenwald

#13. Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up.

Kate Rockland

#14. Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.

Kate Rockland

#15. Be happy with those who are joyful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.

E. Lockhart

#17. I loved our mutual corny sense of humor. Underneath all his macho bravado, he was a dork. Just like me.

Kate Rockland

#18. Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Indira Gandhi