Van Vliet Quotes

#1. I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Don Van Vliet

#2. There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

Don Van Vliet

#3. Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Bill Hybels

#4. The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door.
So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Don Van Vliet

#6. If we couldn't see anything outside the car, if we didn't know we were moving, there would be no way of telling whether it was the raindrops' fault or our own, Said Mattia

Paolo Giordano

#7. If you got ears, you gotta listen.

Don Van Vliet

#8. Well, the way you'd been, old lady
I could see the fear in your windows
Under your furry crawling brow
A silver bow rings up in inches
You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife
But it's alright, God dug your dance
And would have you young and in his harum

Don Van Vliet

#9. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Colson Whitehead

#10. In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Diane Ackerman

#11. Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Don Van Vliet

#12. Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

Don Van Vliet

#13. If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

Don Van Vliet

#14. Don't stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits your return and your recoverying.

Holli Kenley

#15. I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

Don Van Vliet

#16. I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Don Van Vliet

#17. I like the blues ... but I like aqua marine just as much.

Don Van Vliet

#18. The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Don Van Vliet

#19. Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief

Don Van Vliet

#20. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

#21. Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

Jacques Delors

#22. What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

Jeff VanderMeer

#23. Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Juvenal

#24. It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

Don Van Vliet

#25. A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

Don Van Vliet

#26. It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

Don Van Vliet

#27. I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

Rachel G. Fox

#28. No, pause! I just went into totally stupid girly virgin mode!!
~Takahashi Misaki

Shungiku Nakamura