Quotes About Letting The Chips Fall

#1. The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

Todd Boyd

#2. The logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Mark Twain

#4. Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.

Andrew Barger

#5. The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

Vicente Fox

#6. Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Charles Mingus

#7. You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

Michael Maloney

#8. My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Laird Barron

#9. You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just thrash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Margaret Atwood

#10. She packed a small suitcase with a few clothes and toiletries, then wheeled it to Madoc's suite. She knocked on the door, he opened it part way. "I'm moving in. If you try to keep me out again, I'm going to grab hold of a body part you like and start twisting."

Shannon K. Butcher

#11. This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.

Napoleon Hill

#12. Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

William H Gass

#13. In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. How you accept, evaluate and appreciate you, is what will decide the size of your achievement

Keerthi Singhe

#15. The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's.

Jay Woodman

#16. Our world has lost its sense of wonder.

Brennan Manning