Quotes About Paradox

when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain (freedom).

I said I wasn't sure: when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. But it didn't necessarily follow that to stay free was to stay the same. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain.

The intangible became solid, the visionary was embodied, the private became public: when peace becomes war, when love turns to hatred, something is born into the world, a force of pure mortality.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character.

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

I am surprised that everyone loves a criminal. It amazes me and I really don't know how to react to it. Bob Biswas has become some sort of an idol, which is interesting because such a thing has happened for the first time.

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.