Avant Gardist Quotes & Sayings

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. — Andy Partridge

The world was here before you,
and will exist after you.
You are not the center of the universe,
nor are you its circumference. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that. — Robin Wright

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous. — Theo Cowan

Since when was genius found respectable? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Failure was always an option, because the knowledge that you couldn't win every time gave you the courage to try. — Barbara Claypole White

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. — Marian Seldes

Generate the belief in what you wish to achieve. — Steven Redhead

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. — Eric Bana

John's baptism ... was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance ... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism. — John Piper

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman

I've always thought my flowers had souls. — Myrtle Reed

I phoned the Admiral back.
'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.'
There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre.
'They're lying, Tim!'
'What?'
'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.'
'Has anyone told the French that?'
The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.'
I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle not knowing if the Admiral was making a joke or not. I got it right. He was serious. — Tim FitzHigham

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon — George R R Martin

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that. — Nicki Minaj