Out Quotes

[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.

I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more–it’s sad, but that’s the truth.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn’t be so bad if they thought.