Implodes Quotes

#1. There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Erica Jong

#2. We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.

John Lahr

#3. The universe implodes. No matter.

Liam Williams

#4. Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.

Charlie Sheen

#5. Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't - some people do lead enchanted lives - but odds are that it will. Some time.

Robin McKinley

#6. You can't make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

S.R. Crawford

#7. What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

Ian Astbury

#8. I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

Laurie Simmons

#9. In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost ... especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.

Col. Thomas Aspinwall

#10. If my dream comes true,
Is truth then only a dream?

Rob Bignell, Editor

#11. I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

Charlie Kaufman

#12. Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Diana Wynne Jones

#13. There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

Walt Whitman

#14. Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.

Theodore Epp

#16. I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

Anthony Burgess

#17. In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

Saint-John Perse

#18. Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K.W. Jeter

#19. You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Anandamayi Ma

#21. What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?

Francesca Lia Block

#22. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Nicole Krauss