Thom Yorke Quotes

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Lovers ever run before the clock

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

And nobody had told them that they were short on time.