Abiquiu Quotes

#1. Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

Baruch Spinoza

#2. My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Eartha Kitt

#3. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.

Suzanne LaFleur

#4. Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Jenna Elfman

#5. This one moment, when you know you're not a sad story. You're alive.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

Delta Goodrem

#8. It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.

L. Frank Baum

#9. The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Charlie Fletcher

#10. Of all animal movements, flight is indisputably the finest. . . . The fact that a creature as heavy, bulk for bulk, as many solid substances, can by the unaided movements of its wings urge itself through the air with a speed little short of a cannonball, fills the mind with wonder.

David McCullough

#11. What a gift it was to be normal! We're all walking on these unseen tightropes when really we could slip at any second and come face to face with all the existential horrors that only lie dormant in our minds.

Matt Haig