DJ Shadow Quotes

The clever cannot catch the genius

Don’t let the bad leg fool you, son. If you hurt my princess, I will be the nightmare you never see coming.

How much did a Dragon hide, when he walked the streets of the city?

It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God.

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.

She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

You stay on me like my godsdamned shadow, vampire."Mirceo's lips curved. "Eternally, demon.

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

Singing is the sound of the soul.

Some day this war is going to end...

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.

What if I turned out to be a great kisser, and suddenly, girls everywhere wanted to kiss me? Did I really want to risk losing my free time to watch people so I could kiss every girl in town?

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome, ’ was his way of describing himself.

Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent.

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

Winners are the favourites of heaven.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...

[T]here [is] no limit to what might not be achieved by an alliance between an imperial monarchy and revelations, if truly believed to be heaven-sent, of a prophet.

But I didn't know about the other story.""What other story?”"About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—""No, whatever you heard it’s not true.""But it was really romantic""Then it’s definitely not true.

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

What if, " replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to shield the words from public view?

Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.

So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc, " he said, watching her face light up completely.

A werewolf.” He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.

No, but it’s your reality now. Put on your big-boy pants and deal with it.

I’d do you both in heartbeat and come back for seconds.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents".

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

Don't sound so grumpy. Next thing you know you'll be whinning and giving me puppy dog eyes.

Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.