The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.
Quotes about vortex (16 Quotes)
Mind and matter, said the lady in the wig, glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.
Whatsoever quits the non-manifest, becomes active life it is drawn into the vortex of the one, which is neither Spirit nor Matter, both being the absolute life, latent.
Was it always so hazardous for women in the public eye. . . . When a woman is the subject the vortex of venom reaches a spinning climax.
Our commitment to law and order has not tempted us to infringe upon the constitutional rights of Americans to peaceful assembly, to freedom of movement, to nonviolent dissent. While we're prepared to deal with violence, keep it clear that our first priority is to avoid violence. It is within this framework--avoiding violence--that Vortex One emerged.
He pulls people into his silence. Marlon Brando had something similar. Brando had, deep within his vortex, an explosive rage. What Heath has instead is tremendous sweetness.
The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... The Vortex of Bushonomics, The Downward Spiral The Coming 2006 Budget Crisis.
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
I still live somewhat by the Zone, it's the only thing that works for me. Before, I had been starving myself and in a dieting vortex I couldn't get out of. Now I pretty much eat whatever I want.
During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.
In some ways, I feel bad for Paris Hilton who finds herself trapped in a vortex of mindless, unfulfilling, consumerism. The day she stops shopping conspicuously will be the day advertisers controlling the Big Media brainwash machine turn the cameras elsewhere. You see, in the Cult of Celebrity, good-looking people are a dime a dozen, while good shoppers are invaluable.