C.J. > C.J.'s Quotes

“When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”
― Henry Rollins

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“What’s the use in dreaming, if you’re not going to fly?”
― Vee Hoffman, Acclamation

“Desire. You can't fight that; you can only fight yourself after it hits you...”
― Vee Hoffman, Acclamation

“Why do you fall in love with the impossible?”
― Vee Hoffman, Reclamation

“This was beautiful, this was us.”
― Vee Hoffman

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The intensive use of pesticides was affecting the vaunted quality of American flue-cured tobacco—or at least that’s what cigarette manufacturers said as they increased their purchases of cheaper leaf cultivated in other parts of the world.”
― Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History

“I would not mind a smoker killing himself privately,” wrote one peeved nonsmoker to the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1978. “I greatly object to his infecting my air.”
― Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History

“One memorable offstage incident was reported in detail by Tork to writer Dave Zimmer: “We were in this hotel room. Jimi and Stephen (Stills) were sitting on these beds facing each other, just flailing away on acoustic guitars. In between ’em was Micky Dolenz, slapping his guitar like, ‘slap, whacka, slap, whacka, slap.’ And all of a sudden Micky quit. Then Stephen and Jimi stopped and Stephen said to Micky, ‘Why’d you stop playing? Micky said, ‘I didn’t know you were listening.’ So there’s one for ya—Hendrix, Stills, and Dolenz.”
― Eric Lefcowitz, Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band