Jack Gilbert Quotes
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Quotes to Explore
-
My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
-
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
-
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
-
You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
-
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
-
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-
I crave attention and adventure.
-
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
-
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
-
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
-
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
-
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
-
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
-
I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.
-
The world is evolving.
-
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
