Dean Cavanagh Quotes & Sayings

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch — Dean Cavanagh

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned — Dean Cavanagh

In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds — Dean Cavanagh

Power is only an aphrodisiac for the living dead — Dean Cavanagh

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths — Dean Cavanagh

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us — Dean Cavanagh

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct — Dean Cavanagh

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion — Dean Cavanagh

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire — Dean Cavanagh

All creativity is a work in progress — Dean Cavanagh

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog. — Dean Cavanagh

Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect — Dean Cavanagh

Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks? — Dean Cavanagh

Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight. — Dean Cavanagh

The born again nihilist has nothing to blame for their fall — Dean Cavanagh

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation. — Dean Cavanagh

The Pre-Historic Age Ended With A Bang. This Post-Historic Age Will End With A Cumshot Of An Auto Asphyxiated Minor Celebrity — Dean Cavanagh

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread — Dean Cavanagh

Even the mantis has stopped praying — Dean Cavanagh

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell — Dean Cavanagh

The shallow of the highs and the depths of the lows — Dean Cavanagh

We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism — Dean Cavanagh

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves — Dean Cavanagh

The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen — Dean Cavanagh

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand — Dean Cavanagh

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates — Dean Cavanagh

Life is a road movie whose destination is death. Direct your own instead of watching others. — Dean Cavanagh

You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others. — Dean Cavanagh

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission — Dean Cavanagh

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse — Dean Cavanagh

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world — Dean Cavanagh

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism — Dean Cavanagh

The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations — Dean Cavanagh

Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks — Dean Cavanagh

Uneasy lies the head that wears a Knighthood — Dean Cavanagh

Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow — Dean Cavanagh

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar — Dean Cavanagh

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian — Dean Cavanagh

The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won't work unless you observe him fixing it — Dean Cavanagh

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death — Dean Cavanagh

Sleep: the breakfast of champions — Dean Cavanagh

Lucifer waits in the wings applying his makeup, ready to take center stage once his servants have finished entertaining us into insouciance — Dean Cavanagh

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time. — Dean Cavanagh

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life. — Dean Cavanagh

You can never read too much into anything — Dean Cavanagh

Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm — Dean Cavanagh

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame — Dean Cavanagh

We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love. — Dean Cavanagh

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself. — Dean Cavanagh

It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself — Dean Cavanagh

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it. — Dean Cavanagh

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire — Dean Cavanagh

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle — Dean Cavanagh

The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned — Dean Cavanagh

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear — Dean Cavanagh

Unrequited love is quantum romance — Dean Cavanagh

Don't Let The Medium Massage The Message — Dean Cavanagh

Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime — Dean Cavanagh

life is simply a vacation from the infinite — Dean Cavanagh

De-calcify the pineal gland with the detergent of imagination — Dean Cavanagh

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans — Dean Cavanagh

They tell us to count our blessings whilst they count the coffers — Dean Cavanagh

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes — Dean Cavanagh

The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination. — Dean Cavanagh

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it. — Dean Cavanagh

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated — Dean Cavanagh

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor. — Dean Cavanagh

Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid — Dean Cavanagh

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king — Dean Cavanagh

I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words. — Dean Cavanagh

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet. — Dean Cavanagh

The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends — Dean Cavanagh

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes. — Dean Cavanagh

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind — Dean Cavanagh

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing — Dean Cavanagh

The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death — Dean Cavanagh

Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive — Dean Cavanagh

I first realized I was psychic next Monday — Dean Cavanagh

Ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone — Dean Cavanagh

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends — Dean Cavanagh

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil — Dean Cavanagh

Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated — Dean Cavanagh

The only "right" answer is one that can be questioned. — Dean Cavanagh

Atheists are the most faithful people I ever met — Dean Cavanagh

Don't Go With The Flow. The Powers That Be Turn The Taps — Dean Cavanagh

You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture — Dean Cavanagh

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure — Dean Cavanagh

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few — Dean Cavanagh

Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void — Dean Cavanagh

The Only Good Greed Is Greed For Enlightening Experiences — Dean Cavanagh

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back. — Dean Cavanagh

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about "shit". It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades. — Dean Cavanagh

The love you make is equal to the love you fake. — Dean Cavanagh

The human race. No winners, just slower losers. — Dean Cavanagh

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You — Dean Cavanagh

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune. — Dean Cavanagh

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst — Dean Cavanagh

I'm a recovering abstainer — Dean Cavanagh

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing — Dean Cavanagh