Use Quotes - Page 152

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.