Quotes About Disruption

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?

Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

I believe an elsewhere can and must be found here: in our efforts to refuse to accommodate and adjust to the status quo and in those very small moments when we make choices that place us outside of the norms and expectations that confine us, when we cultivate the capacity to say no. In

seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.

Nunca pude soportar ver salir el sol después de una tormenta. Mi idea de un día de lluvia es que debe llover hasta la noche. Que el sol salga a la mañana siguiente, vaya y pase, pero ¿así?... Que el sol interrumpa donde nadie lo llama... En los días de lluvia el sol es un intruso imperdonable

Koyaanisqatsi!

Carriages without horses shall go,And accidents fill the world with woe.

Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.

Loss of the hippocampus in both cerebral hemispheres disrupts the formation of and access to long-term memory of integrated scenes. Unique events are no longer recalled even if objects and events can still be recognized outside a unique context. One is able to recognize a house as a house, but not the particular house where one has lived. The contextual, episodic knowledge acquired by personal, individual experience is no longer accessible. The generic, semantic knowledge is still recoverable.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.

Doors soar away from their frames. Bricks transmute into powder. Great distending clouds of chalk and earth and granite spout into the sky. All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets.