Vorticism Quotes & Sayings

Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock. — R.D. Ronald

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music. — Joe Budden

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Abstain from all thinking about other people's faults, unless your duties as a teacher or parent make it necessary to think about them. Whenever the thoughts come unnecessarily into one's mind, why not simply shove them away? And think of one's own faults instead? For — C.S. Lewis

The lifers
who, even seven states away, are the porches
where we land. — Ellen Dore Watson

I nodded but couldn't form even a single word in response. I wanted him so much it hurt, and now he was touching me, finally ... — Christina Lauren

Pound thought better than he practiced in this particular instance, for his Metro poem was supposedly a pure example of what he meant by Vorticism: "The image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster; it is what I can, and must perforce call a vortex; from which and through which and into which ideas are constantly rushing. It is as true for the painting and the sculpture as it is for poetry. — Kenneth Yasuda

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again. — Philip Pullman

By then I had moved often enough not to have the usual illusions about a clean slate or a fresh start or a new life. I knew that I could not escape myself. And the idea of beginning again, with no furniture and no friends, was exhausting. So my happiness then is hard to explain. I am tempted now to believe that entering the life one is meant to inhabit is a thrilling sensation and that is all. — Eula Biss

People who say they read more write better. — Stephen D. Krashen

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead. — Ian Fleming

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out. — Bill Lear