Colin Wilson Quotes

The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

Colin Wilson

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Up
  • First
  • Kiss

• The circus leaves a sweet memory.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Sweet
  • Memory
  • Circus

• I've always had problems with guys!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Always
  • Problems
  • Had

• I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Change
  • Result

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Model
  • Beauty
  • Conform

• There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Great
  • Now
  • Mexican

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Reasons
  • Explanation
  • Adequate

• If I can see it, it's a failure.

  

  Bill Buxton
  • Failure
  • See

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Morning

• If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Discipline
  • Piano
  • Obligation

• The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

  

  Colin Wilson