Vortex quotes

  • Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
    -- Arthur Fogel

    #Vortex #Records #Kind

  • My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness
    -- Austin Osman Spare

    #Desire #Vortex #Sun

  • For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
    -- Austin Osman Spare

    #Black And White #Sphinx #Vortex

  • When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
    -- Barbara Amiel

    #Vortex #Speech #Recycling

  • The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
    -- Ezra Pound

    #Ideas #Energy #Vortex

  • It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
    -- Henry Ward Beecher

    #Men #Vortex #Prosperity

  • There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
    -- Ian Somerhalder

    #Energy #Vortex #World

  • Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones
    -- Ivan Chtcheglov

    #Cities #Relief #Vortex

  • The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.
    -- Lord Kelvin

    #Dream #Atoms #Vortex

  • ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
    -- Louisa May Alcott

    #People #Vortex #Wrecks

  • I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
    -- Monica Potter

    #Flower #Home #Vortex

  • I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.
    -- S. Robson Walton

    #Vortex #Stories