Lucier Quotes & Sayings

Is it worth the effort to tell an idiot that they are profoundly stupid? Or is it just good fun to see the blank stare? — Neil Leckman

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959. — Francois Englert

Oz had arranged rows of folding chairs for the women facing one of the soft suede couches where he had placed himself and Kermit. "Big mistake," Oz later told me. "The sofa was about a foot and a half lower than the chairs and now Kermit and I are looking up at forty-seven women - our knees under our chins. — Lynn Povich

Count your eggs while they're still up inside the chicken's ass, — Elizabeth Gilbert

EPH2.5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) EPH2.6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: — Anonymous

What I would give right now, to feel nothing. — Makiia Lucier

The health, happiness, and peace that everybody wants don't come from far away. Health, happiness, and peace come from a bright mind. — Ilchi Lee

nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. PERSUASION — Jane Austen

Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen. — Alvin Lucier

Oohrah, kiddo," Chester said quietly. Ty smiled and squeezed his eyes shut as tears trailed down his face. "Oohrah, Gunny. — Abigail Roux

Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy. — Roxane Gay

The rain came before I'd gone a block. A few drops at first, and then a downpour. I didn't turn back. I tipped my face to the sky. Welcomed the coolness on my skin. In this world of mine, it was the rain, it was the rain alone, that made sense. — Makiia Lucier

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week. — Howard Bach

COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such musics, from La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Part, Nurse With Wound's Solilique For Lilith,The Dream Syndicate (orig.concept not the newer group who plundered the name) to Synus, Earth and so on.and on and on. Some new so called ambient musics fall between genres and so between newsgroups: some of our own music has certainly been deeply inspired by and informed by such musics,from Partch to Subotnic. — John Balance

But I understood, now, that we don't live only for ourselves. We're connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion.
I learned that even when we're going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear. — Laura Anderson Kurk

The most beautiful soul is the soul in love! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not afraid of these ghosts, Cleo. I have enough of my own to keep me company. — Makiia Lucier

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it. — Cullen Hightower

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people ... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples. — Zhou Enlai

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey