Quotes About Chaos

Sudden as a knife you thrust into my sorry heart and strong as a host of demons came, gaudy and libertine, to make in my corrupted mind your bed and bedlam there; Beast, who bind me to you close as convict to his chains.

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.

I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.

We live in a crazy world. You don't know what's going to happen.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

As you look at your fears head-on, you'll begin to see how much of what you fear is just False Evidence Appearing Real. When you act on this false evidence, you create chaos in your life.

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

The Border, in a sense, was a bloody buffer state which absorbed the principal horrors of war. With the benefit of hindsight, one could almost say that the social chaos of the frontier was a political necessity.

And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.

IT'S JUST ROUND THE CORNER ALL THE TIME, AND WE ALL KNOW IT'S THERE. STOP FIRING THAT MACHINE-GUN! STOP CHASING WHATEVER YOU'RE CHASING! CALM DOWN, GET YOUR BREATH BACK, LET A BIT OF PEACE SEEP IN YOUR BONES. NO USE. WE DON'T DO IT. JUST KEEP ON WITH THE SAME BLOODY FOOLERIES.

one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring some improvement by starting at the verbal end....Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- 'Politics and the English Language,' 1946

For her, finally, the literary art is an instrument of social salvation—it is her means of touching the world with her ideals, her love, her aspiration; for him the literary art is the avenue of escape from the meaningless chaos of existence—it is his subtly critical condemnation of the world.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

I'm bleeding at the knees and choking from smoke and have no idea who these people are or where I'm going, but at least I'm off the hook in terms of the hand jobs.