Bruce Cockburn Quotes

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

You never know what's going to happen next onstage.

Life is lived on the edge.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

The best actors just stay in the moment, and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It's part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.

Life can be very strange.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

This sport is crazy, anything can happen.

There's never any guarantee at war.

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.