Kris Hurst > Kris's Quotes

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

“The only sin is mediocrity.


(While widely attributed to Martha Graham she attributed this to her father)”
― Martha Graham

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

“Disappear here”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia

“A little rebellion is good now and then.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
― Aristotle

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”
― Andre Breton

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
― john lennon

“Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.”
― Harry Houdini

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Art is the proper task of life. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche