Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

A. S. Byatt

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Alan Watts

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Audre Lorde

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

Arthur Rimbaud

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Charlie Kaufman

The end is built into the beginning.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Robert Hartwig

We're looking at complete chaos in New Orleans, with explosions and uncontrolled fires,

Cameron Diaz

Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, ... Also Rose had just kicked her out and she was hoping by creating this chaos that Rose would have to clean it up and that would extend her stay, but it backfired.

Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.