Blur Quotes

• All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Truth

• The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Internet
  • Facebook
  • Blur

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Firsts
  • Stuff
  • Exciting

• There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Light
  • Qualities
  • Blur

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Back
  • Blur

• Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Tell
  • Blur
  • Lad

• I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Moments
  • Memories
  • Social

• Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • World
  • Color

• The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Clear
  • Edges

• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Past
  • Poetry
  • Flood

• I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Way
  • Passion
  • Lovers

• I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Trying
  • Style
  • Smart

• Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Remember
  • I Can
  • Shots

• I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

  

  Paul Putner
  • Rocks
  • Profile
  • Peas

• Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Song
  • Ramones

• Slight changes simply make a blur.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Changes
  • Simply
  • Blur

• Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Pain
  • Forget
  • Pleasure

• It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

  

  Phil Daniels
  • People
  • Play
  • Theatre

• I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

  

  Hannah Hoch
  • People
  • Wish
  • Achieve

• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Different
  • School
  • Morning

• the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Blur

• I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Block

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