Pataphysics Quotes

#1. Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Arthur Cravan

#2. I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.'
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'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.'
'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#5. God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Jonathan Winters

#6. Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born.

Lauren Oliver

#7. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

Joss Whedon

#9. The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Susan B. Anthony

#11. I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

Nikki Sixx

#12. For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

Julien Torma

#13. Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Arthur Cravan

#14. Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

William Shatner

#15. It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head.

David Foster Wallace

#16. If you ever try to do anything to restrict my movements again, you'll find out I know how to hold a grudge too," she said between her teeth. "In fact, I have a real talent for it.

Thea Harrison

#17. And proceeding to follow the example of the devil in quoting Scripture for his own ends I added: She looketh to the ways of her household ... .

Agatha Christie

#18. I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

Grimes

#19. One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

J.D. Robb