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

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• 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

• The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature

• 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

• Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• 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

• I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Believe

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

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Fun

• I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

  

  David Beckham
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Success
  • Happiness

• When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Done
  • Bad

• I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

  

  George Strait
  • Up
  • Words
  • Singing

• 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