Derrick Brown Quotes

#1. I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

Janet Fitch

#2. To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

Gary Hamel

#3. When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

Thomas Bernhard

#4. I can not love you until you can love our beautiful waitress in the simple way that I do.

Derrick Brown

#5. The red washing
down the bathtub
can't change the color of the sea
at all.

Derrick Brown

#6. Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#7. The best relationships
fade out
and you're not even sure
when it ended.

Derrick Brown

#8. It's not that I wait for you.
It's that my arms are doors I cannot close.

Derrick Brown

#9. For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

#10. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#11. Stop ruining love by wanting it so bad.

Derrick Brown

#12. The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!

Nikhil Sharda

#13. When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer.

Derrick Brown