Brian Ortega Quotes

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

I find it hard to settle into a normal, routine environment.

Never get comfortable.

I'm just coming to terms with the fact that I will always do lots of different things and I can't really stay in one place too long.

I'm one of those people who's always changing. There's nothing wrong with it but it means I am a hard person to hold onto, I guess.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.

There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.

Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

Change is uncomfortable.

If you are uncomfortable you are always adjusting.

I learned you can't get too comfortable.

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.