Quotes & Sayings About Being Unfiltered

A Mystic And A Drunk

The Universe turns on an axis.
Let my soul circle around a table
like a beggar, like a planet
rolling in the vast, totally helpless and free.

The knight and the castle move jaggedly
about the chessboard, but they're actually
centered on the king. They circle.

If love is your center, a ring
gets put on your finger.

Something inside the moth
is made of fire.

A mystic touches the annihilating tip
of pure nothing.

A drunkard thinks peeing is absolution.
Lord, take these impurities from me.

The lord replies, First, understand
the nature of impurity. If your key is bent,
the lock will not open.

I fall silent.
King Shams has come.
Always when I close, he opens. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places. — Joss Whedon

They know better than you, they're grown-ups. Jake thought that was bullshit. If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled? — Stephen King

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena. — Alan Shepard

I want to be the one cheering you on, not stopping you from making it onto the field. — Scarlett Cole

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous. — Matthew Caws

If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled? If being a grown-up gave you some sort of special knowledge of the right things to do, how come his mother was sleeping with her masseuse, who had huge biceps and no brains? — Stephen King

Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. — Charles Ghigna

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. — Martin O'Malley

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself. — Tony Parker

Forgiveness can be the one thing that truly holds us back in our Christian walk. — Karen Kingsbury

I just try really hard to be me, and sometimes that means I'm unfiltered. I try to give people myself because I think making a great product is being in touch with how you feel about things and being able to express things. I really hope I can stay in touch with how I feel about things and I'm able to express that. — Evan Spiegel

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain." — Aleksandar Hemon

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death. — Edgar Cayce

Evil is only good perverted. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. — John Steinbeck

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. — Wendell Berry

True intelligence is pure love which does not exclude or waste anything.
Not even a grain of sand is excluded or wasted. There are no exceptions in what is set free and in what is in service to this setting free.
Life, the formless, form and fragrance, knows exactly what it is doing.
Life is pure, unfiltered Intelligence flowing as whatever shape is now appearing.
It is alive and it is all calling us Home.
Do you hear the grain of sand calling your name?
It says, "Love."
Do you sense the truth of it?
If not, lean in and 'listen' again -
this time with the whole of your being. — Dhyana Stanley

One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us. — Ray Rice