L.A. Paul Quotes

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

I am an American. I love this country.

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

Stupidity is not my strong suit.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.