C. N. Lester Quotes

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. Im not used to it.

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

All blues singers are great liars.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.