Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Poor
  • Leave
  • Behind

• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

• From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Faith

• It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Great
  • Care
  • End

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• America should function as a Christian nation.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Christian
  • Nation

• I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Control
  • Distance

• Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Friends
  • Charity

• That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dark
  • Waiting

• There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Battle

• Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

  

  Wyndham Lewis
  • Laughter
  • Seeing
  • Climax