Some quotes I like:
"I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."
Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
"One must go where the unfaltering spirit goes, there must be no balking the issue, because of fear." DH Lawrence
""The next real literary 'rebels' might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal:shock disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today's risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh how banal.' To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. " David Foster Wallace
"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke."
Brendan Francis
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Cicero
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
Anton Chekhov
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
Blaise Pascal
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Jung
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
Francis Maitland Balfour
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
Jack London
"Now if you gonna stay cool, you got to wail. You got to put something down. You got to make some jive. Don't you know what I'm talking about?"
Marlon Brando as Jonny in 'the Wild One'
Also, if anyone wants to stalk me then you can find me in West St Live on West St, Sheffield, where I put on gigs featuring 3 or more cool bands every night (except weekends when i don't work). It's free to get in most nights unall. Look in my 'Top 8' section and add Know Your Onion promotions (I DO NOT DO gig bookings through this page unless it is a band that's played for me before or someone i know doing the asking- messages must strictly go to the KYO page). Alternatively, for anyone who isn't so bold then e-stalking can be done care of MSN Messenger, my email is [email protected]
