Tuesday, August 17, 2004

quote time ^^

okay. should be packing. but this was really too good to miss XD so, here you go, Velvet Goldmine quotes. Whoever said the movie wasn't worth quoting ain't know nothign yet XD It is also interesting to note that most of these were taken from Oscar Wilde himself *haha* (taken from http://velvetgoldmine.com.ar/)

"Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return..." [narrator]

"I want to be a pop idol." [Oscar Wilde]

"For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous." [Narrator]

"Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars!" [Kid]

"Meaning is not in things but in between them." [Norman Brown]

"I knew I should create a sensation, gasped the Rocket, and he went out." [Brian]

"Ten years. Ten years and the world had changed so completely that the life I led in England seemed like someone else's life. Someone else's story. Anyone's but mine." [Arthur]

"There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own." [Arthur's teacher]

"Style always wins out in the end." [Cecil]

"Rock and roll's a prostitute. It should be tarted up, performed. The music is the mask, while I in my chiffon and taffeta... Well, varda the message." [Brian] (what's varda mean?? *haha*)

"Every great century that produces art is, so far, an artificial century, and the work that seems the most natural and simple of its time is always the result of the most self-conscious effort." [Jerry Devine]

"What's true about music is true about life. That beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing." [Mandy]

"The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second duty is no one has yet found out." [Freddy]

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person! Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth!" [Brian]

"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner." [Brian]

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history." [Curt to Brian]

"Smiles lie." [Mandy]

"You live in terror of not being misunderstood." [Mandy]

"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders" [Brian to Mandy]

"Make a wish. And see yourself, on-stage, inside out! A tangle of garlands in your hair. Of course you are pleasantly surprised I will mangle your mind." [Curt with Arthur]

"We set out to change the world... ended up just changing ourselves." (What's wrong with that?" -Arthur) "Nothing. If you don't look at the world." [Curt to Arthur]

"A real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them." [Curt to Arthur]

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