Traverso Recording Quotes

#1. Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.

Carlos Salinas

#2. The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Tennessee Williams

#3. You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Hass

#5. Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

China Mieville

#6. I'm too horny tonight to be productive. Right now the only thing I could make is love. And then I wouldn't be productive, I'd be reproductive.

Jarod Kintz

#7. It certainly wasn't the chronicle of a king. The yere of our Lord 1537 was a prince born to king Harry th'eight. It was, instead, the story of a poor boy who learns to read and comes to know as much of politics as a prince. This

Jill Lepore

#8. Or maybe ... their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#9. My favourite food is cake.
What kind of cake?
It doesn't matter. All cake.

Jenny Han

#10. I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

Chang-rae Lee

#11. Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Jack Kevorkian

#12. God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds.

Monica Johnson

#13. Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

Tariq Ali

#14. her cheeks a slight Asian red;

Ned Vizzini