Top 16 Stilgoe Quotes
#1. John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.
Tom Vanderbilt
#2. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
Alan Watts
#3. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...
Stephen Stills
#5. Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.
Antoinette Bosco
#6. A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip them and send them to bed. Such children should be dealt with as
John R. Stilgoe
#7. I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#9. I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
Rachel Bilson
#10. What can be handsomer for a picture than our river scenery now? Take this view from the first Conantum Cliff.
John R. Stilgoe
#11. Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.
John R. Stilgoe
#12. femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#13. Yakety Yak. The Coasters. 1958 Spark Records. One minute and fifty seconds of sublime, in-your-face, balls-out nonsense. Everything rock and roll was meant to be.
Tristan Egolf
#14. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
Adam Smith
#15. I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
Joanne Harris
#16. Dally not with mony or women.
[Dally not with money or women.]
George Herbert
