Lydia Lunch Quotes
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones.
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I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
