Ruth Ozeki Quotes

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

Ruth Ozeki

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YouEdgeWantSeePointWhere

It's a lot of fun to fight.

Jim Mattis

FightFunLot

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Joe Paterno

NameBackMattersJerseyMostFront

I don't bow down to the federal government.

Joe Arpaio

GovernmentDownFederal Government

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.

Jerry Garcia

ControlOverPrettySeemsStuff

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

Jerry Lewis

LifeYouTakeCannotInterviews

I'm sour at times.

Jerry Lewis

SourTimes

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

Maureen Forrester

ServiceYouProfessionalYoungStage

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

Michael Connelly

LearnWriteFictionWantedWorlds

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.

Summer Glau

LoveManEffortParentsPeopleMe

I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.

Tracy K. Smith

WorkSchoolPoetryParentsPeople

I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'

Tommy Lee

LoveHistoryManThinkingNewDone

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Tom Wolfe

MindMeEndEnjoyCreatingFirst

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