“The Beat Poets wrote spontaneously, ignoring accepted form in favour of the complex rhythms of everyday speech.” Quote by Gordon Roddick
“The heroes (Lucky Jim’s) are so attractive because there is an honesty in the portrayal of a weak, sometimes witty, human being with the ability to laugh – the ones committed to action, the irredeemable, the unchangeable – a youthful obsession of mine.” LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“My personal heroes are those who live as they shout, as they proclaim, as they are, for sure, with buckets full of insecurity, doubt and quicksands of anxiety. – out there – unafraid – uncopyable – unquenchable – dissatisfied – slightly dangerous – uncontrollable – and always corruptible!” LifeWisdomTruthLiteratureReflectionContemplationHeroesAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.” Inspirational Author:Bertrand Russell
“Not afraid of controversy.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionBraveryContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Remote from the world's real meanings, can we sit here comfortably?” LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“I am pretty much anti-everything.” LifeTruthHumourReflectionActivismContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“I have always been inspired by those who have gone their own way, who have challenged orthodoxy and the status quo and sought to make a difference, right wrongs, and often put up with being unpopular for saying and doing what they think is right.” LifeTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceOutsiders Author:Gordon Roddick
“Real heroes live by a different drumbeat, verging or merging into anarchy. They break the rules and smash moulds. Some of them rampage through life with disrespect for what they leave in their slipstream.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAnarchyHeroesAttributed No SourceOutsiders Author:Gordon Roddick
“When is it time to quit moaning and get on with it?” LifeTruthHumourProcrastinationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“The university of life and meeting people is so important.” LifePhilosophyTruthReflectionAttributed No SourceGordon Roddick1964Wisdom Contemplation Author:Gordon Roddick