Ti West Quotes

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Wealth inequality has increased.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

Tools have their own integrity.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.