Attributed No Source Quotes

“Little did we know what lay ahead!”
― Gordon Roddick

“A lot of life is accidental. Maybe “karma” related? When I look back at an incident-packed life, most of it seemed to happen just because I was in that place at that time, not by any grand design.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It was pretty absurd travelling up through Peru to arrive in Iquitos, hoping to find an expedition! Life does not work like that. To say it was naive would be kinder than I deserve!”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am going to begin in the middle and see where that takes me.”
― Gordon Roddick

“When I have understood, what will I do with it?”
― Gordon Roddick

“These were evenings where the noises and laughter would eventually disappear into the night sky.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Inspection No. 2

I plucked
The flea
From my ear
And ate it;
No wonder 
I have this
In digestion.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Then, as if in unbelief,
We clad our separate selves
In a dead rasp
Of pimpled chicken skin,
And picked the spots
One by one and
Watched as the blood signed its thin red
Hand on our throats.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Sorry” can come out like diarrhoea if you’re not too careful.”
― Gordon Roddick

“A sense of humour, or we are going to be fucked.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I made it! I paddled 1,250 miles down the bloody Amazon, got muscles where I never knew any existed and a really hard arse!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Inspection No. 3
 
On a single dead white bough
Of a single death white tree
Is scratched a mark
Of the hooded hawk's want
Talon probes in drying sinew
Hungry vulture slumped in a dying land
Unseeled eye pouring a glaze to the world's end
Rattling dags in the memories seed
Shade of disaster tearing a sign
In warning spaces
 
No sick prey for him to tend
Wing-weak without his stoop
His beak turns inwards”
― Gordon Roddick

“Crux: something that occasions difficulty.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Shed me a tear!
For I am wrought
Upon your crossed arms
Stretched tight
Like the gutted deer.
Chaliced
In your double-lip
I no longer hear
The sounds.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Bullshit laid bare - another refuge for me to hide, another reason not to think or to bear responsibility; life gallops by on the other side.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What saved us once again was our willingness to recognise that we were wrong and our ability to move on to the next idea.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We constantly dreamed of better ways to live and make money and held monthly ‘ideas’ meetings with friends – brainstorming for a better life!”
― Gordon Roddick

“It is only perhaps two or three occasions in a lifetime that an outrageous idea comes to one and all the pieces seem to fit; this was such an occasion.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“The one thing I know is that I am going to have a fascinating time, win-lose or what, and for that reason alone, the whole thing will have been worthwhile.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“I do enjoy the physical act of writing.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“Travelling and Tschiffley’s Ride have been my two obsessions ever since I was 12 years old.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“I am
You are beautiful
He is
We are
You are
They are”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“Just don't fall in love and don’t ever lose sight of me.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“Clarity of purpose.”
― Gordon Roddick

“They have all been so good to me here in Argentina that it is quite overwhelming. Their generosity is simple, sincere and total.”
― Gordon Roddick,1976

“In Argentina, eating is a sport, a pastime, an essential all rolled into one.”
― Gordon Roddick,1976

“All love is sweet,
Given or returned.
Common as light
Is love,
And its familiar voice
Wearies not ever.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Most of all, I need you.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“Laughter is a wickedness that lurks near the surface and breathes out with joy and maybe even relief.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976

“I feel as if I have done nothing yet – except shoot my mouth off!”
― Gordon Roddick, 1976