Colin Wilson Quotes

What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.

Colin Wilson

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• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respectful

• I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • People
  • Live
  • Past

• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Start

• I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Kind
  • More

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Explore

• The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • America
  • Reality
  • Government

• The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Small

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Unique
  • Celebrate

• I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Life
  • Free
  • Space

• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Things

• Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Important
  • True

• I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

  

  Lake Bell
  • World
  • Movie
  • Obsessed

• On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Girl
  • Friend

• San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?

  

  Brad Willis
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Choose

• I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

  

  Harper Reed
  • Facebook
  • Amazon

• What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.

  

  Colin Wilson