Taiwan Travel Quotes

#1. We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

Gerry Abbey

#3. As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

Gerry Abbey

#4. I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Gerry Abbey

#6. Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform.

Grace Gealey

#7. From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

Issey Miyake

#8. Those who can afford private schooling need not worry about their children being deprived of art, music and literature in the classroom: they are more sheltered, for now, from the doctrine of efficiency that has been radically refashioning the public school curriculum.

Azar Nafisi

#9. I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Gerry Abbey

#10. Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

Gerry Abbey

#11. Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Diane Johnson

#12. It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Gerry Abbey

#13. I'd learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I'd learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

Gerry Abbey

#14. Conversation is our account of ourselves ... Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts ... It is the laboratory of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

Gloria Gaynor

#16. There must only be two, No more and no less

Drew Karpyshyn

#17. My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

Gerry Abbey