Trakas Blvd Quotes

#1. The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

Kenneth Tynan

#2. You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

#3. Yes, it is," I whispered, "and one day the spell will not cause you to forget it.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#4. The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

Fred Sandback

#5. Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Roland Barthes

#6. What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Jennifer Crusie

#7. Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god.

Pierce Brown

#8. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

George Washington

#9. We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

James Cromwell

#10. If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau