Conrad Typhoon Quotes & Sayings

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song. — Chuck Ragan

The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks. — Joseph Conrad

Freedom is not having any standard outside one's own consciousness, but bearing all responsibility oneself. Freedom means that one can never again receive help. Joseph Conrad says this in Typhoon: The loneliness of command is that there is no help from anyone in heaven and earth. I've experienced that, in one single, decisive moment: no one could help me, I had to do everything myself, without aid or advice from anyone. It was an enormous loneliness, a moment of total loneliness between the stars and the earth. — Jens Bjorneboe

They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better. — S.J. Kincaid

If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. — Sarah Lewis

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. — Plutarch

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail. — Sri Chinmoy

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today. — Hermann Joseph Muller

The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves — Joseph Conrad

The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become. — Santosh Kalwar

We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe. — Fulgentius Of Ruspe

Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room. — Cory Basil