Quotes About Living In Seattle

#1. There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

Peter Chernin

#2. A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

Victor Hugo

#3. I only wanted to help my people.

Belle Boyd

#4. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

Oswald Chambers

#5. There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Steven Wright

#6. There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

James Branch Cabell

#8. The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about having adventures, one day at a time, one song at a time.

Bruce Pavitt

#9. If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

Moby

#10. Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.

Dustin Moskovitz

#12. We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.

Libba Bray

#13. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Albert Camus

#14. I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

Rainn Wilson

#15. To enhance your experience and consciousness, your mind is always trying to understand everything that is going on around you.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Read to rediscover.

Lailah Gifty Akita