Amelia Peabody famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

  • The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

  • The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

  • Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, "Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show, I can take it over and run it," and I was like, "Yes!" He's always been so busy that I never dared to ask that, but it just worked out, time wise, that this was the season where we could probably do it, so I jumped at it. So, even though I'm busy with other stuff, I'm excited to be writing this.

  • Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

  • I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

  • When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

  • In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

  • By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  • Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.