Brion Gysin Quotes

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

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• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Literature
  • Said
  • Emotions

• Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Time
  • Water

• The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Live
  • Destiny

• Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Science

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Violence

• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • Country
  • Truth

• New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Fun

• But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

  

  James Carville

• What worries me is to be in the best physical form to score goals.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Goals

• The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.

  

  Om Malik
  • Up
  • Connection
  • Mood

• Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

  

  Anna Julia Cooper

• I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Time

• A very high bar has been set with Robert Downey in 'Iron Man.' That idea was, find the best actor for the part, regardless of whether they've been in a movie like this before.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Movie
  • High

• Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting.

  

  Yana Toboso
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Long
  • War
  • Serious

• I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.

  

  Bill Etherington
  • Animal
  • Burn
  • Alternatives

• Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Words
  • Writers