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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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• 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

• People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

  

  John Banville
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

  

  Chris Sligh
  • Heart
  • Pride
  • Ambition

• I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Inspiration
  • Writers

• 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