Mick Farren Quotes

#1. I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

Mick Farren

#2. I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

Simone Elkeles

#3. We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Elie Wiesel

#4. Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room.

Neil Strauss

#5. It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device.

James Gleick

#6. When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Ally Condie

#7. Life is a journey. As you walk along the road you can either look back or you can look ahead ... Look ahead. Always look for the very next step.

Glenn Beck

#8. I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

Mick Farren

#9. You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

Mick Farren

#10. Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it ... our psychological beings resonate with it.

Bob Brown

#11. Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

Mick Farren

#12. We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Mick Farren

#13. In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

Eric Liu

#14. You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

Mick Farren

#15. I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

Mick Farren

#16. I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

Mick Farren

#17. Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.

Mick Farren

#18. I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

Mick Farren