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“At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”
Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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“For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."”
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“Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.”
Source : "Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve" by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Paris: Charpentier, p. 16 ("Vie de Joseph Delorme"), 1840.
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“I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.”
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“Design is an unknown.”
Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
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“A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us”
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“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.”