Goorjian Michael Quotes & Sayings

You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free. — Michael Goorjian

He was just one person among billions crawling on the planet's surface, a speck of stardust in an infinite cosmos. — Michael Goorjian

The adventure of life is to learn ... — William Arthur Ward

Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think. — Mark Salling

Money is not a fund of knowledge. — John Kluge

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. — Charles Francis Richter

Occasionally he will catch the whispers of this abandoned voice, in the afterglow of certain dreams with that lingering sense of a paradise lost, reminding him of another kind of life, the life he was always meant to live, but for whatever reason, he did not.1 — Michael Goorjian

In times of change, a single, conscious man can equal a million sleeping — Michael Goorjian

I don't want to die without at least trying to understand why I've lived." Beatrice — Michael Goorjian

I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy — Kurt Vonnegut

I saw Orin in bars or at post-tournament dances go up to a young lady he would like to pick up and use this fail-safe cross-sectional pick-up Strategy that involved an opening like "Tell me what sort of man you prefer, and then I'll affect the demeanor of that man." Which in a way of course is being almost pathologically open and sincere about the whole picking-up enterprise, but also has this quality of Look-At-Me-Being-So-Totally-Open-And-Sincere-I-Rise-Above-The-Whole-Disingenuous-Posing-Process-Of-Attracting-Someone-,-And-I-Transcend-The-Common-Disingenuity-In-A-Bar-Herd-In-A-Particularly-Hip-And-Witty-Self-Aware-Way-,-And-If-You-Will-Let-Me-Pick-You-Up-I-Will-Not-Only-Keep-Being-This-Wittily,-Transcendently-Open-,-But-Will-Bring-You-Into-This-World-Of-Social-Falsehood-Transcendence, which of course he cannot do because the whole openness-demeanor thing is itself a purposive social falsehood; it is a pose of poselessness; Orin Incandenza is the least open man I know. — David Foster Wallace