Nicole Brossard Quotes

#1. When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

Tony Stewart

#2. Since I've been rereading this book I'm anchored at point zero, considering a thousand strategies and points of view which soon dissolve, abstraction, abstraction, the gaze melts.

Nicole Brossard

#3. Loving a woman is always political.

Nicole Brossard

#4. I cannot get close to any you.

Nicole Brossard

#5. When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

Nicole Brossard

#6. An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

Jay Leno

#7. It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

Isabel Wilkerson

#8. Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Mason Cooley

#9. The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Samora Machel

#10. Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

L. Ron Hubbard

#11. A third myth is that men think that women like guys who are dangerous. As a result, guys will often smoke cigarettes, drink too much, and ride a motorcycle without a helmet. The reality? Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.

Dennis Miller

#12. Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...

Nicole Brossard

#13. If patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

Nicole Brossard

#14. Women laugh in such ways that we can't see the fences in their breathing

Nicole Brossard

#15. Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.

Nicole Brossard

#17. Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

Tommy Chong

#18. A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Nicole Brossard

#19. The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

Nicole Brossard

#20. Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Nicole Brossard

#21. Right now you are in a completely different reality than you were 10 seconds ago.

Bentinho

#22. Hope is certainty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

Nicole Brossard

#24. Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

Nicole Brossard

#25. The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

Nicole Brossard

#26. Faction before blood, yeah?

Veronica Roth

#27. she wanted because art

Nicole Brossard

#28. No doubt he was smiling. He smiled a lot, as if the world were a secret joke that only he was clever enough to understand.

George R R Martin

#29. To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Nicole Brossard

#30. He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.

Nicole Brossard

#31. Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Nicole Brossard

#32. BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.

Kevin Smith

#33. To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Nicole Brossard