John Stilgoe Quotes

#1. John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.

Tom Vanderbilt

#2. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Richard Hofstadter

#3. I want to put a bullet through Adam Kent's spine.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. He analyses every strategy and asks: "what would I do if I had to fight myself?" He thus discover his weak points.

Paulo Coelho

#5. I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die.

George R R Martin

#6. Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#7. There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

Christopher Bollen

#8. A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip them and send them to bed. Such children should be dealt with as

John R. Stilgoe

#9. I may say it of our preposterous use of books,
He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. What can be handsomer for a picture than our river scenery now? Take this view from the first Conantum Cliff.

John R. Stilgoe

#11. One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

Adrian Hodges

#12. Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.

John R. Stilgoe

#13. As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You're constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

Charlie Day

#14. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

Lewis B. Smedes