Finca Quotes

#1. One cat just leads to another.
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Jinnul Jr.

#3. [Traditions] give voice to what in some sense we already know, but inarticulately. When tradition is silenced, people have to work all these things out for themselves - and that is impossible.

J. Budziszewski

#4. I must give up seeing people, I told myself.

Anthony Burgess

#5. Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

Miley Cyrus

#7. If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Liev Schreiber

#8. As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#9. Her gaze follows my every move. I think she can feel something is weird but hasn't put her finger on it yet. Maybe she's seen my fangs and written them off as gimmick. I fucking love gimmicks. They're so convenient to hide behind.

Carrie Clevenger

#10. This is the true selfishness: self-centeredness.

Henry Cloud

#11. You learn to be tidier than usual when you have as many cats as I do.

Karen Anne Golden

#12. I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

Shia Labeouf

#13. The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Norman Thomas

#14. She's trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.

Ally Condie

#15. Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

Tim Harford