Jack Gilbert Quotes

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

Jack Gilbert

• University
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• Excess

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• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Night
  • Single

• I had no interest in high school besides art.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Women
  • Celebrity

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Be Careful

• I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.'

  

  Cush Jumbo

• I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Wigs

• The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Society
  • Language
  • Achieve

• Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Reason
  • Brother

• To earn more, you must learn more.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Success
  • Positive

• Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Insult
  • Popularity
  • Offered

• I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Music
  • House

• Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

  

  Pam Brown
  • High
  • Moving
  • Horse

• I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Listening
  • Echoes

• I am not a big fan of meaning. Logic is also another nebulous thought. I attempt to bring threads of subjects, however shaggy, to my work and inject little suggesters to the picture itself, and this often puts a smile on my face.

  

  Edward Ruscha
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Smile

• Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Absurd

• Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • She
  • Son
  • Littles

• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • University
  • Absurd
  • Excess