Billy Corgan Quotes

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Let's be honest: you can't celebrate fall without it's leading role - pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.

I am what I was before joining films. Nothing has changed, and I hope nothing will ever change. I'll always remain the way I am.

What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

Dear Great Pumpkin, Halloween is now only a few days away. Children all over the world await you coming. When you rise out of the pumpkin patch that night, please remember I am your most loyal follower. Have a nice trip. Don't forget to take out flight insurance.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

So the first time you hear the concept of Halloween when you're a kid your brain can't even process the information. You're like: "What is this? What did you say?" "What did you say about giving out candy? Who's giving out candy?" "Everyone that we know is just giving out candy!"

What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.