Caves Quotes - Page 18

• Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.

  Annie Dillard

  Grateful, Past, Light

  "An American Childhood". Book by Annie Dillard, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

  James Wright

  Dark, Fire, Air

  James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.114, Wesleyan University Press

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• Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

  Clive James

  Pirate, Treasure, Sometimes

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

  Drew Magary

  Cockroaches, Way, Helping

  Source: postgradproblems.com

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• I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.

  Dean Potter

  Moving, Weather, Guy

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

  Howard Rheingold

  Art, Moving, Order

  Source: medium.com

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• [My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Song, Anime, Men

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Hands, Two

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Would Be, Peers, Sitting

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• "Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Bed

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

  Derek Waters

  Long, People, Has Beens

  Source: www.gq.com

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Brother, Law, Grandfather

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

  Paul Rand

  Design, Logic, Architecture

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• How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

  Michael Moore

  Guy, Three, Target

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.

  Howard Rheingold

  Hunting, Years, Gathering

  Source: medium.com

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• Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Men, Mountain

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• Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as bodhisattvas. And Milarepa said that as long as space exists, so long will there be beings for you to help.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Space, Long, Helping

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• There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Car, Rest Of Your Life

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

  Lewis Thomas

  Song, Hands, People

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

  Malcolm X

  Jesus, Men, Europe

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.

  Allison Maslan

  Life, Unknown Worlds, Choices

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• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  Freeman Dyson

  Brother, Successful, Technology

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.17, Universities Press

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• Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest-
  Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave!
  The immortal courage in the human breast
  Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave
  To camp midst rock and cave,
  Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne,
  Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!

  Felicia Hemans

  Easter, Struggle, Clouds

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

  Jerry Saltz

  Suave, Cave Paintings, Mojo

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