Quotes About Vibrancy

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

A flying chocolate wrapper touched against a fire hydrant. Taxi doors slammed. Bits of trash sparred in the darkest reaches of the alleyways. Sneakers found their sweetspots. The leather of briefcases rubbed against trouserlegs. A few umbrella tips clinked against the pavement. Revolving doors pushed quarters of conversation out into the street.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

Activity in human life is the greatest attraction in cities.

She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.

Life's too short for mild salsa.

Of course everything is blooming most recklessly: if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Pink is not just a color. It's an attitude.

When in doubt, wear red. It always stands out in a room full of people.

What colors are the rhythms of your soul?

Verses of veggies poems of fruit dotted with seeds raw green rhymes in melodious bodies

I love crayons — especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell — and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors — so many colors.

We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

No special form of city blight is nearly so devastating as the Great Blight of Dullness.

I've experienced having you in the house. It's like living with a loud motor running all the time. Up, down, into this room and that room, eating supper, jumping from the table, cursing all the time, yelling over the telephone about things, laughing, making deals all the time. You take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise." She

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.