Dodie Bellamy Quotes

#1. Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the "now" is dissolving. #Quote by Dodie Bellamy

#2. It's such a burden to have to pull off smart... #Quote by Dodie Bellamy

#3. All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence. #Quote by Dodie Bellamy

#4. Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a girl's name," writes Dodie Bellamy). #Quote by Chris Kraus

#5. We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship. #Quote by Dodie Bellamy

#6. There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form. #Quote by Matthew Bellamy

#7. I know hiding your prejudice behind your ignorance isn't enough. Because I have been the mom scrambling to provide my four-year-old with a somewhat intelligent, unproblematic answer when he went through a phase of questioning bindis (and fashioning his own replicas out of modeling clay). Ignoring things I don't understand can't be an option given that I am guiding the next generation. #Quote by Bellamy Shoffner

#8. The Vicar and Miss Marcy had managed to by-pass the suffering that comes to most people - he by his religion, she by her kindness to others. And it came to me that if one does that, one is liable to miss too much along with the suffering - perhaps, in a way, life itself. Is that why Miss Marcy seems so young for her age - why the Vicar, in spite of all his cleverness, has that look of an elderly baby? I said aloud: 'I don't want to miss *anything.*' And then misery came rushing back like a river that has been dammed up. I tried to open my heart to it, to welcome it as a part of my life's experience, and at first that made it easier to bear. Then it got worse than ever before - it was physical as well as mental, my heart and ribs and shoulders and chest, even my arms, ached. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#9. Badly off as the men ... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. #Quote by Edward Bellamy

#10. There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#11. What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from? #Quote by Dodie Smith

#12. He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he'd ever tried. #Quote by Kass Morgan

#13. Oh, comfortable cocoa! #Quote by Dodie Smith

#14. They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#15. It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#16. When the Zetas fill the sky,
Will our leaders tell us why?
Fully loaded satellites,
Will conquer nothing but our minds. #Quote by Matthew J. Bellamy

#17. As she only cries about once a year I really ought to have gone over and comforted her, but I wanted to set it all down here. I begin to see that writers are liable to become callous. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#18. Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#19. The smallest act has repercussions for the universe. #Quote by Bellamy Young

#20. You make me sick. Because I adore you so..."
~Space Dementia #Quote by Matthew J. Bellamy

#21. In serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity. #Quote by Carol Bellamy

#22. Sweezy argued on the basis of Marx and Keynes that "accumulation is the primary factor" in capitalist development, yet noted that its influence was waning. "There is no mechanism in the system," he explained, "for adjusting investment opportunities to the way capitalists want to accumulate and no reason to suppose that if investment opportunities are inadequate capitalists will turn to consumption - quite the contrary. #Quote by John Bellamy Foster

#23. My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#24. If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness. #Quote by Bellamy Young

#25. I think what I really mean is that [she] won't be WANTING things to happen. She will want things to say just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exciting may be just round the corner. #Quote by Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#26. I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making – it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#27. Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America. #Quote by Edward Bellamy

#28. And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#29. When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. #Quote by Bellamy Young

#30. Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make #Quote by Carol Bellamy

#31. exhilaration fizzed through Clarke's body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown her arms around Bellamy. He joined in her laughter as he staggered backward, and wrapped his arms around her waist, lifting her up and spinning her through the air. The colours of the clearing swirled, green and gold and blue all blurring until there was nothing in the world but Bellamy's smile, lighting up his eyes. Finally he set her down gently on the ground. Be he didn't loosen his grip. Instead he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers. A voice in her brain told her stop, but it was overpowered by the smell of his skin and the pressure of his touch. Clarke felt like she was melting into his arms, losing herself in the kiss. He tasted like joy, and joy tasted better on Earth. #Quote by Kass Morgan

#32. Everything about you is how I wanna be;
Your freedom comes naturally;
Everything about you resonates happiness;
Now I won't settle for less ... #Quote by Matthew Bellamy

#33. But during the many happy hours that Cadpig was to sit watching it in the warm kitchen she never liked it quite so much as that other television, that still silent television she had seen on Christmas Eve when the puppies had rested so peacefully in that strange lofty building. She often remembered that building and wondered who owned it. Someone very kind she was sure for in front of every one of the many seats there had been a little carpet-eared puppy-sized dog-bed. #Quote by Dodie Smith

#34. Bellamy didn't know why the ancient humans even bothered doing drugs. What was the point of shooting junk into your veins when walking through the forest had the same effect? #Quote by Kass Morgan

#35. I want to find a man and have a family. #Quote by Bellamy Young