R.J. Lawrence Quotes

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, 'I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself!'

I've got five or six amazing friends that I trust and love, I know exactly who I am and don't care about anything else.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

Well, at least I had on underwear

I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

Trump's election means that you have a US government that will no longer do one thing and say another.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

Let your love fly like a bird on a wing And let your love bind you to all livin' things And let your love shine and you'll know what I mean That's the reason.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

My country tears of thee.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.