Canyon De Chelly Quotes

#1. You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

James Badge Dale

#2. I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.

James Badge Dale

#3. When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

Hampton Sides

#4. Here they have no time for the fine graces
of poetry, unless it freely grows
in deep compulsion, like water in the well,
woven into the texture of the soil
in a strong pattern.

Iain Crichton Smith

#5. Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

Tim O'Brien

#6. I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Nikki Giovanni

#7. For a little while, hope made a show of reviving - not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

Mark Twain

#8. Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

Joanne Harris

#9. As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it.

Lev Grossman

#11. I am a woman committed to
a politics
of transliteration, the methodology

of a mind
stunned at the suddenly
possible shifts of meaning - for which
like amnesiacs

in a ward on fire, we must
find words
or burn.

Olga Broumas

#12. It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

James Jones

#13. If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

#14. A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Johnny Knoxville

#15. It's time we all looked up and saw the inspiration in the world around us!

Holli Rioux

#16. After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right.

Brett Dalton

#17. The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Paracelsus