Attributed No Source Quotes

“If you want to be happy, try never to be negative. As a plan, it is unproductive and does not work.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Above all, surround yourself with friends who make you laugh, especially if you live with them. When they no longer make you laugh, throw them out and recycle them.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Contribute. Be bold!”
― Gordon Roddick

“We are never fucking brave enough.”
― Gordon Roddick

“If you think I am going to be rude, you are probably right.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Life from the other end.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Live by your own conventions.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The great beauty in the English language, innumerable ways of continuing the graphic with explosive, the lyrical, the loving with the spiritual – like dogs nuzzling, cleaning, co-piloting thoughts into the ether of creativity.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The smug grin of a thought well described, the laughter as others connect with the thought well received, a light of recognition, a delight of recognition switched on, triggered by words.”
― Gordon Roddick

“In my life, I had no one to disappoint or to let down. Spectres did not haunt me. I very ably created my own prissy set of standards: hesitant, over-polite, submissive. I only became attractive (to myself) when I broke out of that and had bursts of rip-roaring, disgusting behaviour. It was funny and hurt no one.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I remember sitting on the side of the hill with my head bursting, my heart blasting, filled with confusion.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am coloured by my father’s
Far and painted image.
In a thousand lines of broken questions,
I have tried to find
Some thread, some bind
That would peep me through the locked
Doors of his life and why I am as I stand.
He drank gin with a sense of humour,
He was thin and killed by a tumour.
In twenty words, his full-fleshed life
Is boned for approval,
In twenty words, I am lured away
And buried in the obscurities
Of twenty thousand lives, not so different.
Twenty stories told by twenty people
Nurture confused and distracted poetry.
I am not certain that he was a man
And was indeed my father, I am not sure,
And yet, I am coloured by my father’s
Far and painted image.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Dare to live completely. I dare you.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am in a medium state of panic, wondering about the importance of things left undone.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Words are very good, but it is actions going forward that count!”
― Gordon Roddick

“There was a running theme through my friendships, and it was that of anarchy. I just loved people who were clear and definite in the proposition of life.”
― Gordon Roddick

“God help us! For fuck’s sake!”
― Gordon Roddick

“What do you want to do with your life?”
― Gordon Roddick

“Happy. Crazy. Times.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I am bored by my ego, which hunches on my shoulder with his arse in my face.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I’ve got a lot of inadequacies to reveal that should make people feel more confident about their own lives.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I would wander about bookshops carrying, in my tote bags, a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses or Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. All of whom gave me a literacy orgasm until I got found out.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Anarchy – get the hell out of here!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Sometimes, loyalty can be misplaced.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I thought of life as a self-made riot, an experiment in chaos and fun. There were, after all, no endings, just beginnings, endless possibilities, no wrong turnings, just turnings meandering about in the village of life.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The big black face of the clock is all-important - the figures sitting roundly, the heavy hands laboriously moving every minute. Every minute is an hour waiting for the big black thing to say a new minute. One can’t push it or hurry it. Picking it up to smash it is futile – it will still be there, but by hell, when one is happy enjoying oneself, there it is, going faster than hell, menacing you – threatening the end. Always pushing, hurrying, never going slowly or giving you enough time. Time itself, the word I mean, is an ugly, unprepossessing little word with boundless, inconceivable meaning, for time curtails all but extends all into eternity. Man continually races against time, of time, be it seconds or eternity; there is always a quantity of time. Man may well run a mile in three minutes, but he will never run a mile in a minus quantity of time. He can never beat the clock. It ticks relentlessly on, second by second, bringing births and deaths. We are bound by time, shackled forever, yet time is relentless, apathetic and remorseless. It makes no distinction for the individual; for prince or pauper, time will bring each his death, time will make his tea grow cold. Time is night and day, black and white, day after day. Time is God striding hungrily around the world, killing and creating. Time is breaths per minute or sex per hour – time is the oak tree or the tortoise, time is the hawk beady watching fat pigeons – time is what I hate but no longer fight, for no man can destroy it or push it further on or hold it back. It is the strongest thing I know. It is stronger than love or hate, for time can heal them. It is stronger than God, for he cannot change it. Rise. Let us unite against time and be destroyed, for we beat our own brains out.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What will you do now?”
― Gordon Roddick

“I will try, as far as I can, to be honest. But I am a flawed character, and sometimes total honesty is not achievable. And sometimes not even desirable!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Schopenhauer regression. I feel duty-bound to point out the increase in pain with the increase in sensitivity. But not forgetting the sensitive increase to pleasurable emotions – joy, laughter, love, glory, humour and the agony of happiness.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Work out your own set of principles and keep to them.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962