#outside

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. ↗

— James Dickey

#lightning #outside #poet #rain #someone

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #arts #beginning #building #dancing

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#being #day #everybody #exactly #get

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#attempts #built #first #his #man

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#bursts #coldly #cracks #dead #down

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#call #characters #collectors #fans #geeky

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. ↗

— John Michael Hayes

#change #get #house #look #oughta

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf. ↗

— Henry Longhurst

#appropriate #call #god #golf #improve

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#conscious #idea #our #outside #programmed

There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#outsiders #winter #introvert