Quotes About Chaos

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings – in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, 'This is I!

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

and in that is their power, the strength of many—chaos.

disarray, but nothing like the ones downstairs.

Is she in trouble?" The question was quick and aggressive. Helene and Jake Justus were two of Joe the Angel's favorite people. "Of course not!" Malone's tone indicated the question was ridiculous; that trouble wouldn't dare to even come into Helene's neighborhood. Which wasn't true. The dark bird of chaos spent most of its leisure time roosting on the Justus balcony, but Joe did not make an issue of this.

Sin pies ni cabeza.

John had told the other Beatles he was breaking up the group, prompted, apparently, by the chaos at Apple.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

Thirty-nine murders in forty-eight hours. And all of them in this room. It doesn't add up. [Reflects.] Goddamn it, it doesn't add up. [Pause.] It doesn't add up, I say.

but when Gerry and Joan and little Marion were there it was anything but peaceful. They were noisy and argumentative and took pleasure in practical jokes of a very annoying character. And they were so careless and untidy that their belongings were scattered about in every room. The young Lamberts were not welcome visitors at Merlewood.

Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.