Quotes About Pierrot

#1. It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

Marilyn Manson

#2. Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object - such as a statue in the park - was struggling to keep itself together.

Heather O'Neill

#3. I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

David Bowie

#4. 'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Shane Carruth

#5. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.

Eileen Munroe

#6. [Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about this."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.

Rachel Caine

#7. Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.

Ian McEwan

#8. I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

Alex Lifeson

#9. The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles De Lint

#10. True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#11. The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Plutarch

#12. Is there an award for the best trophy? I bet they hand out a plaque.

Dana Gould

#13. You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#14. I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.

Kiersten White

#15. NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Burt Rutan

#16. The basic lesson of Indian history was already established. Material power like kingdoms, and kings, including Alexander the Great, comes and goes. But spiritual power, embodied in religion and caste and spiritual unity with Brahman, the changeless essence of the universe, lasts forever. Prime

Arthur Herman

#17. Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

Greil Marcus