DJ Shadow Quotes

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

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

Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

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

So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

As soon as they were spotted, one of the jerk’s buddies pointed at me and said, “Arrest her! She’s the one who killed Z

What's going on?" I asked when he finished."I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait.""Great. My favorite thing to do.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

He licked her shoulder and pulled her closer, into the shelter of his body. “No worries, nysr. I’ll watch over you while you sleep. And I’m not going anywhere. Not ever.

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

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

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

Some day this war is going to end...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The clever cannot catch the genius

Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.

Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago?

The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

Love beauty

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.