Christine Keeler Quotes

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

Being first doesn’t mean anything unless there is a second.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

You have to think that if you're starting first instead of 31st you've got a better chance to win.

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Although the last, not least.

The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.

I am No. 8 in the world. I am not No. 100.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.